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Right now, terrifying.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 November 2016 source ↗
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Dan Stevens
English actor
Like somebody’s painted the world a different colour.
Jacqueline Wilson
English novelist
Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
Yogi Berra
Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
Being friends with all of the people I grew up with.
Just an instinct, but I think reading more Mark Twain.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
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