Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
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Aidan Gillen
Irish actor
Last year, driving in California, I found myself on the wrong side of the road. I was 30 seconds away from hitting two cars coming the other way.
Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.
John Malkovich
Actor
When I was an idiot high school student, as opposed to being an idiot adult, I used to drive very fast.
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Eternal happiness.
Exactly what I am now.
Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
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To have more time.
His holiness the Dalai Lama and his ability to forgive.
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