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That I’ve kept all my friendships with my school friends.
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Gareth Bale
Welsh footballer
Nothing is the same as the sense of pride and achievement I feel when I see my kids growing up and enjoying the simple pleasures in life.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
British space scientist and science educator
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
John Waters
American filmmaker
That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
Edwina Currie
Former British politician, broadcaster and writer
As health minister, I brought in breast and cervical cancer screening. And in 1994 I called the first debate on gay rights for a quarter-century and we got the age of consent down to 18. There are pubs in Brighton where I still can’t pay for a drink.
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There was a moment in my early 20s when I’d finished Emmerdale and didn’t know what was next. I drove from LA to San Francisco listening to Tracy Chapman and it felt like one of those pure moments of uncomplicated joy.
After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
The ability to switch off.
Something tongue-in-cheek: Rescue Me.
Anybody who’s written to me and not heard back yet.
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