Marina Abramović
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To have more time.
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More sleep, less stress.
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Samuel West
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Decent arts funding.
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Martin Freeman
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A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
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If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
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I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
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I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
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To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
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Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
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