Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
My children ending up anything like me.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Dying alone and in pain.
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Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
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Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016
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I’m quite scared of bats. I’m just seeing rats with wings – no, thanks.
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Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
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