Robbie Williams
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Not having a 32-inch waist for most of my adult life.
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That the last general election didn’t take place later. We might have got rid of the Tories with a couple more weeks.
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Gloria Steinem
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Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
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This country’s enchantment with privately educated, self-serving liars.
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An old camper van that has cost me more in repairs than my house, my wedding and all the holidays I’ve ever been on.
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Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
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Worrying that I’ve upset people.
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To all those whose fleeting interaction with me has fallen short of what they’d hoped; the unwitting recipients of my occasional grumpiness.
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Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.
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