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Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Rats scurrying in the roof. I won the last war but it’s only a matter of time.
Dawn O'Porter
British writer, director, and television presenter
Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.
Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
I’ve been awake almost my entire life. I have had insomnia since I was a child.
Ray Mears
British woodsman and TV presenter
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
Procrastination.
“What makes you think you are so special?”
I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
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