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I was at university and it was pretty easy, trundling along towards getting a job after that, I just wanted to do something a bit more difficult and challenging.


Alastair Humphreys

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ALASTAIR REYNOLDS The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happines...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I think I'm highly loveable.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond cove...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I had a happy childhood.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving impe...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players wer...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER Love can come from enduring ones life journey, where from such a venture, you will learn compassion ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over ...
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