Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
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The psalm would be the 23rd. I’ll have to think about the song.
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Steve Pemberton
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Tears Of Laughter by Cheese and Crackers. We wrote it for an episode of Inside No 9 and it ends “Laughter is my memory of you...”
Jean Paul Gaultier
French fashion designer
David Bowie's Fashion.
Shania Twain
Singer and songwriter
I’ve been through a lot of grief in my life and there are intimate moments where you need to bawl your eyes out. As the dead person, I want to say: this is a moment you cannot control, life goes to shit sometimes. So I would choose Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin; some things you can’t change.
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I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
He gave people laughter.
My son Quinton. He’s working behind the scenes in the picture biz and he’s done it all on his own.
When I was under contract to Universal Pictures in 1959, just before I got my role on Riverboat.
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