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On a plane, watching a movie.
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Mathew Horne
English actor
Yesterday, because grief creeps up on you.
Probably watching some poor abandoned cat or dog being nursed back to life by a stranger on YouTube.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
Very recently, when a graduate at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology gave the most brilliant speech on behalf of the students at our first graduation.
Scott Mills
English radio DJ and television presenter
When I left Radio 1: full snotty sobbing on air.
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Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.
Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
With smile lines.
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
A Rose Wylie painting.
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