Rose McGowan
American actress and activist
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
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Coming under attack while reporting in Iraq.
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Zandra Rhodes
British fashion designer
A plane to San Francisco, 25 years ago. There was a bang and I looked out of the window and saw flames coming out of one of the engines. We zoomed down to the airport below.
Rory Kinnear
English actor
I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.
Noah Harari
Israeli historian and philosopher
I was almost run over by a bus when I was 13. And in 1991, in the Gulf war, an Iraqi missile hit close to my house.
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Cruelty, bullying, selfishness.
Your average aid worker, wherever they may be. Any human being doing good by helping others, while putting themselves in harm’s way.
Other people’s suffering.
The usual racist shit.
Being called upon by President Bush to ask him a question at a press conference when I wasn’t there. He called my name … and there was no response!
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