Jason Isaacs
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Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
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The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
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Mo Farah
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Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
Louis Theroux
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To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.
To everyone I’ve bored.
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On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
A pair of Russell & Bromley boots with studs. I have had them for eight years and wear them all the time.
Travelling Europe with a friend, when I was 29. She was driving and the brakes went, on one of those vertiginous Italian mountains. It was terrifying for the 20 minutes it took to coast down the mountain.
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