Laura Kenny
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I’m proud of my achievements at the Olympics. But I prepare in exactly the same way for every race.
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That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.
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Emma Barnett
British broadcaster and journalist
Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.
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My children. My marriage. All those books.
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English actor and singer
Still doing what I love.
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View profile →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.
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
That would have to be a film called Pickup On 101. It was a very interesting story, about a wandering musician and an old guy on his way back to his home town to spend his last days, but they made it into a pile of dishonest trash.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
My son Ramón was the victim of my wrath at a particular time that still withers me with disgrace.
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