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“I don’t love you.”
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Camille Paglia
American feminist academic and critic
The shocking decline of artistic quality in Hollywood movies over the past 15 years.
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Myself, for having such a lack of love for myself at times.
Dawn O'Porter
British writer, director, and television presenter
Not winning Celebrity MasterChef. I am still gutted, despite many months of pretending to be fine with it.
Being absent from my son’s life when I’m at work.
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It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
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