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That I grew old.
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View all 367 →Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
Adrian Edmondson
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Not doing Top Of The Pops when The Young Ones’ single went to number one.
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The fans’ reaction at the end of Game Of Thrones because I think it was brilliant.
Judy Murray
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That Scottish tennis has failed to capitalise on the successes of Jamie and Andy.
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View profile →There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.
On my honeymoon in Lapland.
Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.
Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
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