Nothing. Tony Benn, one of my favourite politicians, said, “I don’t care where you’ve been, I care where you’re going.”
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I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.
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I would have come out earlier.
Mark Gatiss
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I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.
Ethan Hawke
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Too many things to mention.
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View profile →I am always very happy in Sardinia with my family; I spend at least six months of the year there. Six months working and six months relaxing – I think that is a great balance.
As a nice and fair guy who helped bring authentic Italian cooking to the UK.
I wanted to be a footballer at first, like any other Neapolitan kid.
That Italy didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year.
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
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