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Be Brilliant Every Day
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Be Brilliant Every Day

by Andy Cope, Andy Whittaker
June 2014
Beginner
240 pages
3h 38m
English
Capstone
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Happiness Terrorists

‘I went to the doctor and he said, “You’ve got hypochondria.” I said, “Not that as well!”’

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We get asked all the time, ‘What do you do for a living?’

In the olden days, when Andy W was trying to impress a young lady, he would lie. He started with little fibs like ‘tree surgeon’, graduating to ‘fighter pilot’ and, if he really wanted to impress, his all-time favourite, ‘dolphin trainer’.

He's got an entire back story about how he used to work with a dolphin called Rocky at Morecambe MarineLand. ‘I loved Rocky so much and we did everything together when I was younger,’ he says, sniffing a nostalgic tear away as he ...

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