Marina Abramović
Performance artist
Exactly what I am now.
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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A trade union official.
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Paul O'Grady
British comedian, actor and television presenter
To work in a dry cleaner’s.
A teacher and a nightclub singer.
An artist, an interior designer and a vet.
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Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
As an aggressive bugger.
To learn to relax and enjoy it.
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate how proud she was of me being deputy prime minister. She ended up doing more press than me, and I was too sensitive and reacted.
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