Losing the people I love.
Rosanna Greenstreet, Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2005 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
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Alison Goldfrapp
English musician and record producer
Myself or a loved one getting a life-threatening illness.
Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
Incapacitation.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
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I'm a cryer. The family has a competition to see who can get me going at Christmas. The last time I blubbed was on my birthday, when my daughter gave me a framed photo of my 15-month-old grandson Hugo, but I have been known to shed a tear at The Railway Children or Pretty Woman.
Alan Bennett. He's enormously good company, very funny, generous with his time, frighteningly intelligent - and a Yorkshireman.
Eric Idle’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. That’s me, really.
Foolhardiness. I wrote two chapters and a synopsis, sent it off to a publisher, and it sold. That's what emboldened me to continue.
But I should have more confidence, it's ridiculous.
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