Philippa Perry
Psychotherapist and author
Everyone. In advance. Just in case.
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When were you happiest?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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My son Ramón was the victim of my wrath at a particular time that still withers me with disgrace.
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Vick Hope
British television and radio presenter
My younger self. I told myself so often that I was not good enough, that I was not smart enough, that I was not interesting enough, that I was boring and ugly. I wasn’t kind to my body, and I did and said things to myself that I would never do or say to a friend.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
To my wife Saadiya, for interrupting too many evenings, weekends and family holidays with work.
My children, because I spent the majority of their youth away from them as I’m the breadwinner and I had to pay the bills.
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View profile →1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.
After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.
Shares in The Way, which turned out to be the best movie I have done. Written and directed by my son Emilio, it’s a father-son story about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
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