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My children, and my sanity. For a child actor, I think it’s noteworthy.
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John Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
To have been one of the people who brought hypnotherapy to the world.
Daniel Mays
British actor
Bringing two kids into the world, but my interrogation scene in Line Of Duty comes a close second. It was 12 minutes long and, without question, the hardest passage of dialogue I’ve had to learn.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
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Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
Now. I feel wiser and calmer than I’ve ever been.
Michelle Obama (not that Barack wouldn’t be right up there). She seems genuinely to enjoy her life and do the best with all the tasks that she sets her mind to.
When I was 13, I was on a bicycle and got hit by a taxi in New York.
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