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The contentment I have now.
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Eddie Izzard
British comedian and actress
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
Being mum to my awesome children, Woody and Nelly. They make my day, every day. I do joke with them that I’m happy to pay for the therapy they’ll inevitably need in later years due to my terrible parenting.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I haven’t done it yet.
Chaka Khan
American singer
Staying alive, being here at this age. So many songs. It’s crazy.
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My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
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