Robert Carlyle
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All this nonsense in the Middle East. It's hard not to think about it.
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Thinking about life.
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Dreaming that I am about to go on stage or set but haven’t got the right script.
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Overthinking about the future.
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Busta Rhymes
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Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 December 2020 source ↗
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My mum, for putting up with me all my life.
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When I watched Ghost about four months ago.
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