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Never to have won the French Open.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
Every job I don’t get.
Samira Ahmed
British journalist and writer
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
Isabella Rossellini
Italian and American actress
That my children never met my parents. They were both dead by the time I became a mamma.
Ray Winstone
English actor
Losing my mum when I was 28.
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