Sandy Powell
British costume designer
To be getting paid for doing something I love.
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The contentment I have now.
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Rose McGowan
American actress and activist
Waking people up.
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Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
Being mum to my awesome children, Woody and Nelly. They make my day, every day. I do joke with them that I’m happy to pay for the therapy they’ll inevitably need in later years due to my terrible parenting.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 December 2020 source ↗
Jason Derulo
American singer and songwriter
Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
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View profile →Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
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Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
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On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
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I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
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My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
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I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
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