David Jason
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Warmth and security.
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Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
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Shappi Khorsandi
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Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
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Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
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When I heard John Noakes had died.
I’d have made more of my education.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
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