Adrian Dunbar
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My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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When my bowels move freely and without complications.
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We’re in such a good place now as a family. It’s the same for my career. I say no to so many things; I never used to be able to.
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Happiness is mostly intrinsic: you’re either a happy soul or a miserable bastard. Fortunately, I’m the former.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
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As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
The character of Frasier Crane – he's given me hours of laughter and an appreciation of the finer things in life.
I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
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