But I should have more confidence, it's ridiculous.
Emine Saner, Question time, The Guardian, 23 September 2009 source ↗
The question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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I’d like to increase my brain’s computing speed.
Hans Zimmer
Film composer
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
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Alan Bennett. He's enormously good company, very funny, generous with his time, frighteningly intelligent - and a Yorkshireman.
Losing the people I love.
Sitting down to supper with family and close friends, either in my garden or on my boat.
Foolhardiness. I wrote two chapters and a synopsis, sent it off to a publisher, and it sold. That's what emboldened me to continue.
I aspire to Jane Austen's precision and observation, but I'm nowhere near.
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