Cynthia Nixon
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Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
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My dear friend Katy. I’m sorry that I couldn’t stop you from making the most devastating decision. She committed suicide.
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Karamo Brown
American television host, personality and actor
To my younger self for not being patient with myself, and for giving up on myself at times.
Liam Gallagher
English singer-songwriter
Any sorrys I’ve needed to say have been said already.
To a resistant materials teacher at secondary school called Mr Noel. He had a comb-over and whenever he turned his back to write on the blackboard, we would roll up bits of paper and launch them at his head. Once, I hit him. I remember him turning around and looking crestfallen.
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Mabel, my wonderful classic VW campervan.
That my parents and my siblings were so shocked and appalled by my changing my path, from university to deciding to be an actor, that they have never seen anything I’ve done.
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