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Maybe the night we drove a Hummer in Kabul and went to a cafe that Osama bin Laden supposedly used to frequent.
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Rosanna Arquette
American actress
About 40 years ago I drove off an embankment and tumbled down a huge hill. I was standing in the field with my car smashed like a can, saying, “Am I dead?” because I had seen myself dead in the car. Then someone said, “Are you OK?” and I didn’t have a scratch. I believe it was an angel experience.
Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
Cat Deeley
English television presenter
Horse riding in a steep canyon in Los Angeles. A couple of paparazzi had hidden under camouflage blankets and when a horse sees a lens, he thinks it’s the eye of a predator. My horse flipped out. When he landed, I ended up on his neck; that was pretty close.
When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
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It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.
In the hospital after my C-section, hanging out with my new baby, feeling very, very happy and grateful.
As somebody who brought joy to people.
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