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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Not being a professional footballer.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
Not being on Morecambe & Wise.
That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
When I got to 40 and realised I hadn’t read all the books I needed to read to understand the world.
Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
Impatience and vanity.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Zack Polanski, George H. W. Bush, Robert Peston, Clare Balding, Jesse Jackson, Caroline Lucas
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