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Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
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A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.
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I was fidgety and clueless for a long time.
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I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
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