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“Everyone hates you.” (My manager, a long time ago.)
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2024 source ↗
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What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
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Melanie Blatt
English singer
“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
Somebody wrote that my voice was more numbing than novocaine.
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View profile →Having a few songs that outlive you is a nice way to be remembered.
It’s just this warm whoosh that goes through you and starts just below the navel area, the pit of your tum.
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
I wish I could worry less.
Nothing. I sleep like a log.
When my son got into art school.
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