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Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
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Isla Fisher
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When I heard the referendum result.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Funerals and, annoyingly, athletics medal ceremonies.
James Blunt
Singer, songwriter and musician
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
Olivia Williams
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In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
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Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
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.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
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