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A Matisse and my Leica camera.
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I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
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Sara Cox
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My half-electric Volvo.
Alison Steadman
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I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
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I have a Maserati. I love pop art and I collect Warhol, Hirst and Hockney.
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Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
“I don’t love you.”
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
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