Sinéad O'Connor
Irish singer and songwriter
Bob Marley's Ride Natty Ride.
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How about The Hokey Cokey? That’s always fun, especially if they’re carrying the coffin.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors
American artist and activist
A Donny Hathaway song called Be Real Black For Me.
Louis Smith
English artistic gymnast
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, by Roberta Flack.
Ivan Lendl
Czech and American tennis player
I am not thinking about dying yet.
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I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.
Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
As having done my best.
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
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