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As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗
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Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
“Oh, she giggled, didn’t she?”
Val McDermid
Scottish crime novel writer
I would like to be remembered for the quality of my work by people who don’t know me; and by the people who know me I’d like to be remembered for being good company.
Erin O'Connor
English model
As a little bit naughty and a lot nice.
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To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
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