Rupert Graves
English actor
Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2016 source ↗
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Still to come, I think.
John Waters
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That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
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