Realising what adulthood is after waiting so long to get here.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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How little money really changes things. It buys doctors but not health, clothes but not taste, makeup but not beauty. When I was young and didn’t have anything, I imagined money had more power.
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Angela Eagle
British politician
Being phoned by the prime minister and sacked from my role as a home office minister in front of 100 people I was about to speak to. But to be fair to Tony, he did appoint me in the first place.
Sinéad O'Connor
Irish singer and songwriter
That so far none of my children has told me they're gay.
Shaun White
American snowboarder and skateboarder
The first video game I was in. I was 13 and video games were the world for me, and my character was awful. He had this terrible orange 'fro, his voice was a man's and he was slow and didn't turn well – nothing like me.
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An astronaut, a writer, a dancer.
The most extravagant thing was a bottle of 1904 armagnac for $1,000. I spent $10,000 on a Martin guitar in the 90s. I also spent $100,000 on a Fairlight keyboard and I ended up giving it away. Oh well.
It feels like a yearning but also a kind of overwhelming glowing out.
Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.
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