Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
And actually now having had the advantage of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and being able to look at some of the records of what the apartheid government was doing, the thing that is surprising to me is why so many of us survived. I mean, how is it that they did not assassinate more of us?
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
Dan Stevens
English actor
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
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Ambulances – I live near a hospital.
Oh, most days. I can watch a political programme and think, “That sounds a really good point.” Then someone will argue the opposite and I’ll think, “Yeah, he’s got a point as well.” I am constantly sitting on a fence.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
Always trying to turn things into a joke.
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