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Not being active in my own desires.
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Tom Allen
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Not understanding myself until I was in my 30s.
Sadiq Khan
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Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
Simon Mayo
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Feeling as though I had to leave Radio 2 to get my life back on track. I had every intention of being David Jacobs or Brian Matthew and going on until I was 127, but it didn’t turn out like that.
James Bay
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
My left foot. (I’m great with my right – I can bend it like Beckham.)
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The third or fourth glass of wine.
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Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
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