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Until I got curtains recently, it was the orange street light.
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Busta Rhymes
American rapper
Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
Louis Walsh
Irish music manager and television personality
The X Factor (wondering about song choices) and watching TV. I’m a night person, and don’t go to sleep until 3am or 4am.
The Middle East crisis.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Rats scurrying in the roof. I won the last war but it’s only a matter of time.
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