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Not fulfilling my potential.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗
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What do you fear most?Originally asked
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Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
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Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016
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Alison Steadman
British actress
That we will drown in plastic waste.
Robert De Niro
Actor
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
More from Sharon Corr
View profile →A warm sunny day. You get this bubble around you and, all of a sudden, problems are halved.
I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
Procrastination.
When I initially made money with the Corrs, I bought a Jaguar XK8.
I don’t have a sorry.
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