Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
The urge to be unpleasant to waitstaff in restaurants.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
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Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
People who are not self-aware.
Disrespect. My dad was a toolmaker and worked in a factory all his life, and he felt looked down on, and it really affected him. And so all my life I’ve loathed disrespect and valued respect.
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Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
An unhackable, simple-to-remember password that works for everything.
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