Perez Hilton
American blogger
That I spent so many years being overweight and out of shape.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
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When were you happiest?
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An angina attack 300 metres below the summit ridge of Everest in 2005, having spent 72 days getting that far.
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Dominic West
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My singing career.
That I never became a virtuoso musician.
Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
The supreme court. Specifically the case Bush v Gore, which is where Sandra Day O’Connor – one person – decided the presidential election.
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View profile →In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.
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