Malorie Blackman
British writer
What A Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
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Something by Nick Drake.
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Right now, Get Lucky. I'm sure this will change.
Louis Walsh
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Crazy by Patsy Cline.
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View profile →Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
As a complex and brilliant man.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
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