Losing the people I love.
Rosanna Greenstreet, Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2005 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
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Jack Whitehall
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Turning into my father.
I’m afraid of the dark.
Malala Yousafzai
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Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
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Alan Bennett. He's enormously good company, very funny, generous with his time, frighteningly intelligent - and a Yorkshireman.
My marriage has not been a drudge. But in 29 years there are times where it's not all excitement, thunderbolts and shooting stars. You have to think, 'I like you and I rate you,' and you'll ride it out.
My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
My inability to play the piano.
I wish I could ban noise. Mobile phones. Aircraft. We should take our time. Why is everyone rushing?
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