When the Guardian called me a scaremonger for wanting to preserve London’s green belt.
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Nish Kumar
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Describing the plot of Roma.
Steffi Graf
German tennis player
He said it was guacamole. It was wasabi.
Brendan Gleeson
Irish actor and director
Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
Lesley Sharp
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At the end of It’s A Sin by Russell T Davies.
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When I had my catheter taken out, thanks for asking.
Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
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