David Shrigley
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I fear it has yet to come.
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Not having longer legs.
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Shane MacGowan
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I never set my sights that high, so I’m not disappointed with anything.
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Some of my choices were mistakes, so I’d have to say myself.
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Not being able to bring my career back into place.
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View profile →Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
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