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I started playing football too old.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Cuba Gooding Jr
American actor
I wanted to meet Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained but he had Jamie Foxx in mind – that one hurt.
Philip Glass
American composer
I don't know. I was lucky; I was able to study with the people I wanted to, be friends with the people I wanted to and in the end I've been able to make a living the way I wanted to.
Benedict Cumberbatch
English actor
Not being a dad by the age of 32.
Jacqueline Wilson
English novelist
When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.
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Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
When I am completely absorbed in something, such as when I pick up my guitar and have a little sing.
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