Turning my life around. Seeing the level of criminality I was involved with, and coming to the realisation that it was not the life that I should be leading.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I haven’t done it yet.
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Yusuf Islam
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Writing songs that can be handed down through generations.
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Aside from the night that my wife said yes, creating Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, and employing thousands of dancers for the last 30 years.
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Not giving up comedy, because it took six or seven years before I started earning a living.
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Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
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