Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.
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Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
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Marie Kondo
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Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.
Mo Farah
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A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
Ronnie Wood
English rock musician
An artist travelling and playing with the Stones.
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That would have to be a film called Pickup On 101. It was a very interesting story, about a wandering musician and an old guy on his way back to his home town to spend his last days, but they made it into a pile of dishonest trash.
After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
Shares in The Way, which turned out to be the best movie I have done. Written and directed by my son Emilio, it’s a father-son story about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
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