Frank Cottrell-Boyce
British screenwriter, novelist and actor
The unguiltiest pleasure.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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Like someone is hitting your heart with a cricket bat.
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Warm and bubbly.
Panic and euphoria.
Being present where you are.
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View profile →Again, too many times to mention, but probably being swung from the balcony at the top of the Columbia hotel in London by the bodyguard of a Saudi Arabian princess was fairly close.
Making songs that are more famous than me.
My first car, three years ago – a Toyota Verso.
Today, at the thought of this awful virus killing more and more people.
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