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Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
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Karamo Brown
American television host, personality and actor
To my younger self for not being patient with myself, and for giving up on myself at times.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
John Simpson
English journalist
I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
Ralph Ineson
English actor and narrator
My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.
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Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
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