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I'd like to write my funeral song.
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Vicky McClure
English actress
Definitely a Carpenters track.
Imelda Staunton
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I like to live in the moment.
Philippa Perry
Psychotherapist and author
One written in 2057.
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My microphone cost me six grand.
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
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Realising that success wasn't going to keep me happy all my life.
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