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To do the very best you can and then let it go.
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What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
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Terry Pratchett
Novelist
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer's and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. There were times when I thought I'd have been much happier not knowing, just accepting that I'd lost brain cells and one day they'd probably grow back or whatever. It is better to know, though, and better for it to be known, because it has got people talking, which I rather think was what I had in mind.
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Written for the Alzheimer's Society in 2008; reprinted by the Observer in the week of his death, The Guardian, 2008
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Joseph Fiennes
English actor
To fail better next time.
Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
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At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
Still to come, I think.
“You’ll never do well as an actor unless you change your name.” I’m not going to say who.
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