David Baddiel
Comedian and writer
I cry a lot. Especially on planes. What is that about? On a plane, I’ll be in floods at The Good Dinosaur.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.
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Ronald Harwood
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This morning. Thinking of my wife.
Courtney Pine
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When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.
Roger Allam
English actor
Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
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A meal alfresco with people I love.
Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.
I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
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