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As A Child, I Had A Deck Of Marvel Top Trumps. You Can Get Top Trumps With Racing Cars, Or Fighter Planes, Or Football Players... I Had All Of The Marvel Superheroes And Super-villains You Could Get, And I Used To Play Them With My Friends. They Were All Listed According To Their Height And Weight And Agility And Their Super-powers.

I Think Everyone Should Do What They Love Because It Will Never Feel Like Work That Way.

I Think That Is So Interesting. It Is Le Carré. There Must Be So Much Of Him When He Was Younger. He's An Interesting Character. I Don't Want To Say The Word "passive" Because There Is Something Very Active About The Way He Is Passive, If That Makes Any Sense: The Nature Of His Watching And His Listening Is Active. It Is Always So Alive Because He Is, Essentially, A Spy.

At Christmas, Individuals Are Apportioned Their Roles In The Family Script - You're Either The Funny One Or The Sensitive One; Or You Either Do The Cooking Or The Washing Up. And Those Roles Aren't Easy To Change.

I Gave Myself Permission To Care, Because There Are A Lot Of People In This World Who Are Afraid Of Caring, Or Afraid Of Showing That They Care Because It's Uncool. It's Uncool To Have Passion. It's So Much Easier To Lose When You've Shown Everyone How Much You Don't Care If You Win Or Lose. It's Much Harder To Lose When You Show That You Care, But, You'll Never Win, Unless You Also Stand To Lose. Don't Be Afraid Of Your Passion.