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Dominic West
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Getting all four kids to school in the morning.
Kathy Lette
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Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
Zandra Rhodes
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Founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.
Michelle Dockery
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My friendships.
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As an optimist.
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At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.
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