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I was a perfume girl at a department store in Aberdeen. I was so bad at it, I didn’t make it to the end of the day.
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When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
Charles Dance
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
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I worked for a company that stripped an office, including the furniture, over one weekend – so I worked for 48 hours straight.
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
Scooping ice cream is tougher than it looks. … Rows and rows of rock-hard ice cream can be brutal on the wrists. … I was less interested in what the job meant for my future and more concerned about what it meant for my jump shot.
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