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I haven't seen a ghost yet.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Patrick Stewart
Actor
Gregory Peck not mentioning me when he won best supporting actor at the Golden Globes for Father Mapple in Moby-Dick. I played Ahab.
Matt Smith
English actor
I got injured when I was a kid and it prevented me from becoming a footballer. Now I am quite happy being an actor but, at the time, that was the biggest thing to overcome.
Mandy Patinkin
American actor and singer
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
This country’s enchantment with privately educated, self-serving liars.
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Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
A single-malt whisky.
Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
Growing up in the 70s, in the country in England and Ireland.
Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
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