English - Critic | 1953 -
When you have a kid, money matters.
Tony Parsons
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
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I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.
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The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.
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When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
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My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
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Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.
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