Last week when I read a passage from the novel my wife is writing.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
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Lleyton Hewitt
Australian professional tennis player
My kids wrote a song for me, recorded it on to a CD and it was played before my last Australian Open. I had no idea until I heard it live on TV.
Andy Roddick
American tennis player
At my oldest friend’s wedding.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
Very recently, when a graduate at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology gave the most brilliant speech on behalf of the students at our first graduation.
Joanna Scanlan
British actress and writer
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
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View profile →Every bad thing that’s happened, apart from Mum and Dad dying, it’s always led to something better. Always.
Chipping rust off a crane.
Their clothes' lines. The oil crisis could be solved if people didn't use dryers.
Losing one of my children.
"I'd rather keep quiet and have people think I am stupid than open it and prove I am." I was selling cars to pay my way through university. The company car buyer said that to me.
To never, never, never give up.
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