John Waters
American filmmaker
Chasing after fire engines as a child with my dad and watching neighbours' houses burn to the ground.
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On my honeymoon in Lapland.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗
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Florence Welch
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Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
Jimmy Savile
English media personality and sex offender
During the war - to a teenager, wartime is very exciting. And when there was no traffic, I could ride my bike about the lovely Yorkshire lanes with not a car in sight. And I'm very happy today because I'm not skint.
Anywhere with her, while she lived.
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Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.
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