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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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James Dyson
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Creating jobs and opportunities for thousands of people.
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.
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
The Blazing World.
How much my son loves me, particularly considering I’ve had a huge career.
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As not having been tiresome.
My own bad prose.
He knows who he is. I’ve apologised. I wish it made more difference.
I would have taken more drugs.
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