Max Whitlock
English artistic gymnast
At the Olympics, after my floor gold medal.
What most recently made you cry?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Death & what remains
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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At my divorce – with good reason.
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John Cooper Clarke
English poet
Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.
I genuinely can’t remember crying.
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Every time I put out a record, I feel like it’s the best. So when a record is not successful it’s very painful.
I guess I would wake up, have breakfast with my children. Then I’d go to the studio and make the best record of my life, and then have a lot of sex! That sounds pretty balanced, I think!
As a nice person, I hope.
There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
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