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The Brit Awards 2007.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Ed Harris
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The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.
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That they stopped making Toffos.
Bradley Wiggins
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Never going back to the Tour de France and trying to win again.
I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.
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