A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
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I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
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Kevin Rowland
British singer
My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
Craig Charles
English actor
I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.
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Nothing. Tony Benn, one of my favourite politicians, said, “I don’t care where you’ve been, I care where you’re going.”
I’ve got no kids, but I’d like us to leave a planet for everyone’s children.
Those who create the doom.
I would say something earnest like stopping the far right, but the truth is nothing keeps me awake at night.
A Reform government.
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