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Watching dying babies on TV.
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Rory Bremner
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At John Fortune's funeral. They played Flanders and Swann's Slow Train ("We won't be meeting again") and my heart broke.
Julie Andrews
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Working on my memoir because some memories were painful to revisit.
We’re not really allowed to cry where I’m from. I can only cry in summer, at the height of hay fever.
I last shed a tear when my nephew, who is under 10, announced that he was learning the trombone. When I was about the same age and wanted to learn the trumpet, a music teacher said: “The trumpet isn’t for you. You’ve got too-thick lips.”
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