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John Waters
American filmmaker
To my teachers in high school - that I didn't punch them in the mouth for discouraging all my interests.
Jason Isaacs
English actor
Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
Liev Schreiber
American actor
My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
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