Jane Asher
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Fine dining when it goes wrong.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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That we waited so long to have children, we only have two.
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This year? Losing to François Englert and Pete Higgs. I truly thought I had that in the bag.
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Adeel Akhtar
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After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
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