“It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.”
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
