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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?

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Denise Welch
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Stopping being such a helicopter parent and worrying about these grownup children’s lives. It drives me mad. And I am having therapy. If I could stop thinking that I should be their first port of call for everything, it would free my head up a bit.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

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Healthier food from motorway service stations – I am always going through them late at night and it’s all rubbish.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
Marc Quinn British painter and sculptor
More money. Sounds terrible, but money is the energy of change.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 May 2014 source ↗

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Question When were you most embarrassed? Failure & regret
Shitting myself in New York last November. I was wearing cream trousers. We were going to see my son Matty and his band, the 1975, at Madison Square Garden, and I was walking through the streets, enjoying the sunshine, pretending I was in some kind of video – throwing my hat into the New York sky like Mary Tyler Moore. I saw a couple of people turn and look at me. Now, although I’m not famous in New York, whenever Matty’s there I do get recognised as his mum, so I’m smiling and waving at them. I went back to the hotel room and bent over to get something out of the suitcase, and my husband said: “Do you realise you’ve shat yourself?”
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

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