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Boarding school. It was horrible.
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Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that others should have.
Gareth Bale
Welsh footballer
Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.
Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
Armistead Maupin
American writer
I would have come out earlier.
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View profile →A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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