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That I might have to do a normal job.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Turning into my father.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
That this is all there is, and there is no more.
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People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.
To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
I cry all the time.
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
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