To anyone I’ve worked with between 5.30am and 8.30am. I am not a morning person.
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Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
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Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
Being two-faced.
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