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The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
People who make you wait around for them.
Arrogance, bullying, meanness – just try to be kind, it’s not difficult.
The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
I am unable to use scissors.
Anthony Hopkins, Jerry Lewis, David Hasselhoff, Angela Griffin, Charlotte Church, Omid Djalili
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