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If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.
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Pete Rozelle
Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
Because of my love for sports, and the nature of my job, it was pretty intense for 30 years, and you have to be sure. I would take it home. My wife would know when things were tight, and she would hear me get up in the night, and walk around and sit and think. It’s not something you can leave at the office.
Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
My son playing drum’n’bass.
Gavin Rossdale
British musician
If I am still in the argument I’ve had in the day.
John Simm
English musician and actor
A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
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My fear of confrontation.
I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.
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