Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
To any of the players I may have fallen out with during my time in management.
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
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Dominic Cooper
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To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
My father, with whom I had a complex relationship: often, when I was young, his desire to protect me clashed with the stubbornness of my choices.
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Anybody who’s written to me and not heard back yet.
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Politics. And casting directors.
A better knee and better lungs.
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