Laura Mvula
English singer
My debut album.
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Being able to paint the way I do.
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I am an ambassador for Rotary, and we are very close to eradicating polio. When I was younger, I lived in Mumbai and, as a kid from England, I was traumatised by seeing children on the street without limbs.
Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
It’s still a work in progress, but I would have to say, organising the world. With all the KonMari consultants around the world, and those that read my books or watched the Netflix shows, we are definitely making a difference.
Robert Glenister
English actor
That I’m still here.
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The boozing. I started on rum as a child.
As a nice old man.
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
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