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Your support makes all the difference.Debbie Barham suggests how the great and the good could make themselves even greater and better in 1998.
I will lose some of those excess pounds - Geoffrey Robinson
I will not leave the table before everyone else has finished - Gerry Adams
I will keep a diary every day
- Alan Clark
I will wear the same shirt for more than one week running
- Manchester United players
I will stop making such a song and dance out of trivial things
- Lord Lloyd-Webber
I will stop parking in disabled parking spaces - Harriet Harman
I will stop being horrible to the cat
- Cherie Booth
I will stop picking my nose (from mail-order catalogues)
- Michael Jackson
I will take up a sport of some kind
- Tottenham Hotspur football team
I will finally get around to putting those shelves up
- head builder, British Library restoration project
I will try to get out more
- anonymous INLA member, speaking from top security jail
I will try to get out less
- Mike Atherton
I will be more decisive. Perhaps
- Paddy Ashdown
I will learn to drive - Damon Hill
I will spend more time away from the TV - Richard and Judy
I will stop finishing other people's sentences
- Judge Hiller Zobel
I will buy at least one mind-expanding book - David Blunkett's commitment to 1998 education funding
I will behave more like an individual - memo: from Peter Mandelson, to: all Whitehall personnel, re: New Year's Resolutions (urgent)
I will stop treating people with sarcasm - yeah RIGHT - Jeremy Paxman
I will start acting my age
- Joan Collins, accepting a part in 'Return of the Living Dead'
I will give more time to the kids
- Jack Straw, on sentencing plans for young offenders
If I win the lottery I will not let it change my lifestyle
- Richard Branson
I will give more money to good causes - Chris Smith, Heritage Secretary
I will completely cut out red meat
- Jack Cunningham
I will try to make my demands clear - the Inland Revenue
I will stop talking on the job
- Chris Evans
I will have a good spring-clean
- ethnic-cleansing groups in Afghanistan
I will stop interfering with other people's business - Bill Gates
I will not shout at people
- The Rev Ian Paisley
I will conquer my fear of appearing in public - Channel Five
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