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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. Desmond Llewelyn

Time You Game Father Sit Cricket Back Able Put Almost Him Loony Australia Died Anybody England Bin Watch

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.' Dhani Harrison

Life Music My Life Finished Band Our Our Music Kind He Stuff Over Like Prince Until Hall Got Fame Get Did Died Done After Then Ages Working Dad Now Play Phase Albert Album

It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines. Diana Rigg

People Remember Opportunity Every Other Wild Extremely About Cough Taking Over Lines Tuberculosis Died After Play Every Opportunity

I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him. Diane Ladd

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving the family destitute. An uncle, who worked as a carpenter, supported the family. Dianne Feinstein

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later. Diego Rivera

People were watching the TV set, and they said three rock-and-rollers died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, including the pilot. I walked out of the hotel. I got on the bus alone. Their clothes were hanging on the racks, their guitars on the seats. Dion DiMucci

Alone People Pilot Three Big Clothes Out TV Guitars TV Set Hotel Buddy Buddy Holly Said Got Were Walked Died Hanging Bus Holly Richie Including Seats Watching Set

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that. Dizzy Gillespie

Music You Men More Than Get Died Serious

When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him. Dolly Wells

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown. Don King

Me Brown Owing Died James James Brown Loved

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town. Donna Brazile

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Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. Douglas Brinkley

You Experience Extraordinary Harriet Born Parks Know Continuity Get Died African-American Rosa Rosa Parks Who Connect Her Spectrum

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost. Edward Hirsch

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. Edward Lear

Peace People Babies Other Distressed Eaten Had Died Door Fiddle Much Next Next Door Who Twin Twins Played Violin

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies. Edwin Catmull

People Think Films Out About Adopted Color He New Days Making Sound Came Began New Technologies Did Died Walt Walt Disney Just Stopped Happened Then Disney Used Technologies Bringing Early Early Days

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened. Eileen Brennan

Me Car Taken Almost Hit Frightened Died Show Away

My videogame mind died after they stopped making wonderful escape worlds - every game just turned into me training to be in the army. But I used to love the Oddworld and 'Abe's Exoddus' and 'Abe's Oddysee' for Playstation. El-P

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father. Elizabeth Warren

You Mother Cancer Father Gone Something He Like Hand Up Very Close Personal Died While Held Really Painful

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people. Elon Musk

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Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died? Elvis Mitchell

You Remember Were Michael Michael Jackson Jackson Died Where

I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning. Emma Healey

Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it was my mother's mother, Vera, who most influenced the character of Maud. Vera died in 2008, before I'd gotten very far into writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' but her voice is very like Maud's. Emma Healey

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I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. Emma Thompson

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My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body. Engelbert Humperdinck

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