That I’m still here.
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View all 192 →My body of work and maybe the fact that I got famous young and I am still here and never ended up in a jail cell.
It’s still a work in progress, but I would have to say, organising the world. With all the KonMari consultants around the world, and those that read my books or watched the Netflix shows, we are definitely making a difference.
I went to a state school, so had to learn ancient Greek from scratch at Oxford.
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You have to go to the end of the line.
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One handsome dude.
Is that the final mix?
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