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Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Gino D'Acampo
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I wanted to be a footballer at first, like any other Neapolitan kid.
Joanne Froggatt
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An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
Alison Moyet
English singer
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I know that for a very long time my consuming passion, which was confirmed when I contracted TB — I had TB when I was about 12 or so — was I wanted to be a physician and when I got TB I was even more determined. I want to be physician so that I can find a cure for the scourge. And, in fact, I was admitted to medical school. If we had had the funds maybe today I would have been a physician.
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Right now. I think I was born in my early 30s and I am finally catching up to my age. It’s fine to be a bit like Frasier now, but it’s probably not ideal when you are 12.
In the last couple of years, Britain.
Most of the people that saw me do comedy between the years 2007 and 2012.
Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
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