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My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that.
Kate Nash
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Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
Back in the day, when comedy was crueller, my monologues were full of terrible jokes about people, and you can’t apologise because then you’re asking people to forgive you. Your punishment is to walk around knowing you said these horrible things.
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