Geoffrey's widow, Alma.
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Anna Paquin
New Zealand actress
I am really loving the badass co-captain of the US soccer team, Megan Rapinoe. She is exceptionally hard-working and talented, and stands up for what she believes.
Anyone who speaks truth to power at the risk of their own safety.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
I'm a great admirer of Tony Benn -he's one of the few politicians who speaks his mind.
Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist
Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
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Gregory Peck not mentioning me when he won best supporting actor at the Golden Globes for Father Mapple in Moby-Dick. I played Ahab.
That I would lose her.
If needed—a doctor-assisted death.
Walking in my garden in England with my wife.
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