James Bay
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Less pizza – living on tour is not conducive to eating healthily.
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If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
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Ram Dass
Spiritual teacher and author
This is why I could speak the way I did yesterday. In California, the stroke is incredible grace because it gives me a prescription to buy pot. ... Pot takes away the pain and frees me from spasticity. ... The marijuana gives me soul perspective. It makes the stroke livable.
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OCD medication.
Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
Sharper knives.
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A glow of wellbeing.
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Magician’s assistant on a cruise ship for two weeks when I was 19. When I was meant to be being levitated, I was silently crying while pretending to be unconscious as I hung limply off a metal pole. It was bleak.
You are good enough.
Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
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