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Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
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Tim Rice
English lyricist and author
Possibly the fact that some of the stuff I’ve written will still be around after I’ve snuffed it.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Singing on the Berlin Wall to a million people in 1989.
Johanna Konta
British tennis player
Being happy. I think that transcends the results of my matches, the so-called successes or failures. How would you like to be remembered? As someone who dedicated their life to what they were doing at the time. Right now, it’s tennis, but I want to have the same dedication for whatever I do after, whether it be motherhood or another career.
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View profile →I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.
As a wonderful husband and a great father, and somebody who inspired others to pursue their own dreams, like Fred Astaire inspired me.
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