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My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.
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Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
Alice Eve
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To all my teachers – I’m sorry I thought class was a paying audience.
To a resistant materials teacher at secondary school called Mr Noel. He had a comb-over and whenever he turned his back to write on the blackboard, we would roll up bits of paper and launch them at his head. Once, I hit him. I remember him turning around and looking crestfallen.
Julia Ormond
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To Sophie, for not being a better parent.
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On New Year’s day I was so hungover my hair actually hurt. I lay on the sofa with my daughter and we watched The Muppets for two hours and I cried with laughter.
Diamonds for my wife.
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