Lupita Nyong'o
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Like the froth on top of a hot chocolate.
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Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
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Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
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A deep awareness of all things beautiful and painful.
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Love to me is knowing who you are and knowing who you ain’t.
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As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
Sorry, I’m British and middle class, so I’ve already apologised to virtually everybody I have ever met.
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