Kim Gordon
American musician and artist
My parents: I’m sorry I didn’t spend more time with them.
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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My wife, just in case I’ve done something wrong.
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Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
To a resistant materials teacher at secondary school called Mr Noel. He had a comb-over and whenever he turned his back to write on the blackboard, we would roll up bits of paper and launch them at his head. Once, I hit him. I remember him turning around and looking crestfallen.
Jason Isaacs
English actor
Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
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Big. Funny. Man.
Absolutely none. I’ve had three run-ups at Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and I conclude it must be boring because I’ve never finished it.
The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
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