Julian Sands
British actor
Being exquisitely alive.
What does love feel like?
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Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Death & what remains
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2017 source ↗
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Matthew Modine
American actor
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
Jeremy Vine
English presenter and journalist
Joy and frustration.
It is obsessive, it is glorious, it is everything that we’re put on this Earth to feel, all at once.
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Every time I put out a record, I feel like it’s the best. So when a record is not successful it’s very painful.
I guess I would wake up, have breakfast with my children. Then I’d go to the studio and make the best record of my life, and then have a lot of sex! That sounds pretty balanced, I think!
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
People worship music artists or actors but I have a lot of admiration for doctors, people who save lives.
I Gotta Feeling.
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