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I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗
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Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan human rights advocate
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
Julia Ormond
English actress
To Sophie, for not being a better parent.
Craig Charles
English actor
To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.
Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician
Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
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A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
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