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Yesterday, when Gemma, my wife, played me The End Of Suffering by Thich Nhat Hanh when we were driving into Hollywood.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2017 source ↗
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Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.
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This morning, at the last school assembly of the year, because those tinies are so adorable.
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I cry all the time, it’s an embarrassment.
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I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
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