Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Like safety, that you've got everything covered; no stress, no fear.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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kd lang
Canadian musician
A deep awareness of all things beautiful and painful.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
Panic and euphoria.
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When we had children at home. But recently I finished a book about old secrets that I’ve been working on for a long time, and when I was done, I felt a gigantic, joyful relief in having escaped from the corn maze of remembered facts in which I’d been wandering for so long.
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