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Figuring out the best way to introduce the next version of myself.
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What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
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Simon Callow
British actor
Fear of falling apart.
Daphne Guinness
British socialite
Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
Steffi Graf
German tennis player
Andre, the kids, my foundation and sometimes the dogs.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
All this nonsense in the Middle East. It's hard not to think about it.
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View profile →I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
That I can’t control it.
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