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Being nominated for an award and not winning – there have been a couple.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
That things didn’t get better.
Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
Marian Keyes
Irish writer
Not having had children.
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When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
As someone who did his best.
I am not a great crier.
To my brother, because I wish I’d been there for him more.
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