I haven’t grown up.
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How close have you come to death?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Belinda Carlisle
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A travel agent, so I could see the world.
A hairdresser through the week and a star on the weekends.
Roger Allam
English actor
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
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View profile →I would be a bit nicer to myself.
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
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