Ronnie Wood
English rock musician
An artist travelling and playing with the Stones.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
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Malcolm Gladwell
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I didn’t want to be anything because I don’t look ahead. Even as a kid I thought it was pointless.
Sofia Coppola
American filmmaker and actress
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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View profile →I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
If you have a nice drink before going to bed, you don’t stay awake at night. I like almost anything in a bottle.
Aside from family life, which is the ultimate happiness, when I see or hear a great artist.
I cry all the time. I like crying: it means that you’re more truly aware of a circumstance or a person or an event.
The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
Probably a suit. If you buy a good suit, it lasts beyond your lifetime.
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