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If my children could change their own nappies.
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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
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kd lang
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A coming together of global consciousness.
Ben Kingsley
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More sleep. I am sleep-deprived at the moment. I've just done four films back to back and I am about to start another one, so it is very tough – and wonderful.
John Malkovich
American actor
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
A driver or a helicopter.
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I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
To the British public generally. They know why.
Like nothing else, I guess.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
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