I’m one of the lucky ones.
Emma John, The Guardian, 22 February 2014 source ↗
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What is your favourite side project?Originally asked
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Ben Kingsley
English actor
I don't have a treasured possession.
Bintou Keita
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General; head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.
Adam Gopnik
Staff writer at The New Yorker; essayist
I’ve been devoting a lot of my time in the last five years to musical theater. It’s been my new passion. I’d love to write a musical comedy about Eleanor of Aquitaine and the troubadours. I’ve always thought that would make a wonderful musical, about a troubadour who falls in love with a beautiful queen.
Ernst Mayr
Naturalist and evolutionary biologist
Birds are still very much my hobby
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View profile →I’ve had a lot of happiness in my life: 1) the birth of my children; 2) getting into Lamda when I was 17; 3) meeting my wife; 4) and the renewal of our marriage vows and my 60th birthday.
I’m one of the lucky ones.
My friend Billy Connolly, for his incredible sense of humour and wit. But greater than that is Billy’s courage and sheer chutzpah, to take his Parkinson’s and make it central to his brilliance as a performer.
Indescribable warmth.
Weight issues and untidiness.
My greatest fear? Poverty.
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