I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.
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Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
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Courtney Pine
British jazz musician
When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.
David Baddiel
Comedian and writer
I cry a lot. Especially on planes. What is that about? On a plane, I’ll be in floods at The Good Dinosaur.
John Grisham
American writer and lawyer
When my mom died, on 18 January this year.
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View profile →A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
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