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My wife. As someone who is forever bored, I’m never bored with or of her.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2017 source ↗
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
Alison Steadman
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I have great hopes for Barack Obama.
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I really appreciate the fact, and I constantly tell Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton that I appreciate the fact that they're fighting for us, because I am an accident of birth.
Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days.
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