Richard Hawley
English musician
That my dad didn't live to let me share my present success with him – we just ran out of time, Pop.
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I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
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Sebastian Coe
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Not hearing the Ellington band live.
Terry O'Neill
British photographer
Not photographing Marilyn Monroe.
Not going to the World Cup in 1986 and not going to the World Cup in 1998.
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View profile →I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
My relationship with drugs.
The inability to do things for myself.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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