When I read about the abuse of Baby P.
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Emily Mortimer
British actress
Yesterday, at my stepsister’s funeral. She was 78, an actor, and died of cancer.
Julie Andrews
English actress, singer and author
Working on my memoir because some memories were painful to revisit.
Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
I cried after I won the Booker.
Telling a story to my son about my brother.
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That we will drown in plastic waste.
I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.
I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
Not making a movie with Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant.
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