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Louis Walsh Irish music manager and television personality
The X Factor (wondering about song choices) and watching TV. I’m a night person, and don’t go to sleep until 3am or 4am.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2017 source ↗
John Simm English musician and actor
A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗

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