
‘
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f you don’t think you’re wonderful, why should anyone else?’
asked the wisecracking actress Mae West. Her legendary self-
assurance did not just happen, she really worked at it.
Anthony Howard, one of Britain’s most distinguished and best-
known political observers, regularly appeared on television. He
had a famously unusual, some would say ugly, face yet his confi-
dence soon made you forget his looks;
as he talked, his personal ...