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I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
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To be getting paid for doing something I love.
Ice-T
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The transition from streetlife to the legitimate world.
Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.
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Not being active in my own desires.
Just remembered, really.
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
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