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I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

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My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

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Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.

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I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

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I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

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Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.

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I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

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I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

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Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

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In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: July 31st, 1944

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