Growing old alone.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
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Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
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I hated writing and I hated reading.
In 1985, in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, sitting on the veranda with my grandmother, people-watching, and listening to poetry and local gossip.
I don't believe in discrimination when it comes to animals.
I like ironing my socks.
My ex-wife.
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