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An improvement in the weather in this country.
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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
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Jimmy Akingbola
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An in-house chef.
Lleyton Hewitt
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To move like I did in my early 20s. I’ve had knee and hip surgery, and my toe joint fused since.
Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
Decent arts funding.
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
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Wasting my life.
That there are more important things than being right.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
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