Danny DeVito
American actor, comedian and filmmaker
That the US, Britain and all these other bozos are still fighting wars all over the world.
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I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
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Lolita Chakrabarti
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That my first play, Red Velvet, took so many years to be done. It took me seven years to write and then five years to get to the stage.
Lena Headey
British actress
Realising that people are not always who they claim to be.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
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Avoidance coping.
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If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
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