The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.
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Yesterday because I was being paid to do it on stage.
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Ralph Steadman
Welsh illustrator and cartoonist
About five minutes ago; I cry easily.
Jenna Coleman
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I cry when I am overtired.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
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View profile →Giving a speech in high school at a pep rally that wasn’t going so well and the dean unplugged the mic. Apparently, I was rambling and the spirit of the cafeteria was being weighed down.
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
If people would just follow my rules about how they get around the city.
Flashes of hubris.
A strong sense of being loved and a hopefulness for their life ahead.
Being a parent.
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