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Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
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Nicholson Baker
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In 1999, the British Library auctioned off some of its newspaper holdings. My wife and I formed a non-profit and saved more than 20 tons of these irreplaceable bound newspapers, including the last intact run of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
Ashley Jensen
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That my son is kind and he loves David Bowie.
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Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
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View profile →In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
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