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That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
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du Beke
English dancer and TV presenter
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.
Shirley Ballas
English ballroom dancer
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
Richard Hammond
English journalist, television presenter, and author
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
Clare Balding
English broadcaster, journalist, TV presenter and author
My A-level grades – but I got over it.
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Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
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