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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2017 source ↗
When I was little, I took a bunch of pills out of the cabinet because I was bored, when I was supposed to be taking a nap. I had to have my stomach pumped.
When I was an idiot high school student, as opposed to being an idiot adult, I used to drive very fast.
After a significant traumatic experience when I was looking for reasons to stay alive.
I had heart surgery when I was 17. The other time was when I fell off my piano. My head was an inch away from a metal step.
Strength, comfort, joy and passion.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
To see a united Labour party.
Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
Christopher Eccleston, Michael Flatley, Martin Sheen, Vanessa Redgrave, Ed Harris, Julian Clary
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