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Walsall fans. I wanted to be a good manager but I was really bad with drink and gambling at the time. I should have done better.
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Anne Enright
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I was not great with my mother-in-law, who was a very gentle woman. I thought she would be an uninvited part of my life for ever, but she died early and I wished I had been more open and patient.
I think that’s a thesis.
Griff Rhys Jones
British actor and comedian
Sorry, I’m British and middle class, so I’ve already apologised to virtually everybody I have ever met.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
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Nothing, because it’s up to me how I feel. I’ve been a millionaire three times and I still wanted to kill myself.
Thirty-odd years ago I bought a black pinstripe suit which I thought was £900. But when I went to pay that was just the jacket – the trousers and waistcoat were extra. I didn’t have the balls to put anything back. I dread to think how much it cost me in the end.
When you jump out of addiction and look back, things like drink-driving and sitting in crack houses are not good.
Going back to addiction.
That materialistic things will not make you happy.
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