Ray Winstone
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When my three kids were born.
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Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗
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Julian Lloyd Webber
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When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.
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I consider myself quite a happy person. One of the most exciting times was when Sarah was born.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
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