Jeremy Deller
English artist
Three squaddies on a train in 1995.
How close have you come to death?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
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Emma Bunton
British singer
When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
Stephen Graham
English actor
I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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View profile →Pretending I’m happy when I’m not.
Exactly what I am now.
Eternal happiness.
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?
Recorded
University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen
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Whenever I finish good work.
To myself. I am my harshest critic.
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