Laurence Fox
English actor and activist
My children doing what they’re told.
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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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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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
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To be more secure.
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A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
Bobby Gillespie
Singer and songwriter
I have a nice life but if everybody else had a better quality of life, too, Britain would be a nicer place.
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People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
I cry all the time.
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
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