I don't know, it makes me giggle. I don't look at myself in the mirror and go, 'Yeah, absolutely! I see what they're saying!' I see all my faults and everything that I've always seen as my faults.
Time, Interview, Time, 4 October 2016 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Arlo Parks
Singer-songwriter and poet; Mercury Prize winner
I want to be a voice for the kid. I mean, it sounds quite contrived, but I want to make music that I would have wanted to hear when I was 14.
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
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