Robert Carlyle
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Like safety, that you've got everything covered; no stress, no fear.
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Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
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Richard Coles
British musician, writer, presenter and priest
The best thing in the world.
It’s like arriving somewhere that you’ve always wanted to be.
Griff Rhys Jones
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Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
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A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
I am my biggest disappointment.
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