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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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Ethan Hawke
Actor, director and novelist
Words like achievement make me want to puke.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
To have been one of the people who brought hypnotherapy to the world.
Gemma Whelan
English actress
Recovering from anorexia.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
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Dylan’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.
I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
Unfinished songs.
President Jimmy Carter, for his single-handedness in working to eradicate the guinea worm.
Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.
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