Seth Meyers
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My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.
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My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗
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Clive Myrie
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Whenever I’m with my wife and I’m not preoccupied with work.
Having fun with my sisters back in the day. I miss playing cards and fighting over crabs with them every weekend.
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The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
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Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
Dying alone and in pain.
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