I've got no idea where this came from and I'm not a superstitious person, but it's definitely something ridiculous that I do, without fail.
Every single farmer I met, without fail, told me what runs his life are the mottos, "expand or die" or "get big or get out".
I promise, without fail, that after hearing these kinds of responses, your immediate thought processes will be negative.
It says, "the act of sleeping – something I do without fail for around eight hours a night – is secondary to me needing this bit of floor space here to like, do stuff in".
Every morning when I walk my dog, fortunate enough to live in one of the more affluent suburbs of Athens, I see, without fail, an old person searching through the garbage.
The camp's 15-strong domestic staff of men from various local tribes went above and beyond to give the safari an extravagant feel... Returning to my tent after dinner each evening, I would without fail find my riding boots cleaned and polished to perfection and my laundry scrubbed, pressed and folded as if at a top-notch hotel.
That has never been clearer to me than on a recent trip home, when I knew that without fail, I needed to eat at Mac's Steak in the Rough.
They know I am an actress, but every time I go there, without fail, one of them will say in a patronising, high-pitched voice: "Still doing the acting?" And I, very tersely, reply: "Yes, it is how I make a living".' She never wants to stop working.
I've spent some time in the Divine Unknowing before, and I learned that without fail, help and support simply appeared, as if from nowhere.
In all my years as a CEO I found time and time again that the most valued gift I could give someone was a handwritten note of thanks, and the only items I have saved without fail over the years are the handwritten notes of thanks that employees and clients sent to me.
