I didn't go to a retirement party once for someone who had been special to me and he died shortly after.
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To my mum, for never being able to live up to what she would have liked me to be. She always wanted me to be a little princess and I was never going to be that.
Dick Cheney for hating him for being one of the most destructive people on Earth.
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View profile →I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
As someone who had time for everybody.
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
Pulling Sandra.
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