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At my late brother Martin’s funeral we played He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother by the Hollies. Martin lived a life that inspired me with the way he approached his learning difficulties and the love he showed us all with his Down’s syndrome. I often think that extra chromosome of Down’s syndrome is a chromosome of love, and you can’t have too much love in the world, can you?
It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.
The Resurrection Shuffle.
What A Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong.
One day you write nothing, the next you write eight pages. It’s not in your hands.
I don't think you should do the serious stuff, you're not cut out for it.
I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.
I was jealous as hell.
The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene.
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