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Getting ill. I am in remission [from rheumatoid arthritis], but there is no cure.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Not being able to take up my place at Rada.
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Sometimes it was disappointing not to have the fan base at home in the UK that we had elsewhere.
Robin Gibb
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The way some of the music industry is being run now. Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
Jim Kerr
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I travelled all the way to the Arctic Circle to see the aurora borealis, then fell asleep and missed it.
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