Rosanna Arquette
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A ballet dancer, and for a while I wanted to teach children with Down’s syndrome.
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In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
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Kevin Pietersen
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A pilot or a ranger in the bush.
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.
Lauren Laverne
English radio DJ, and television presenter
I wanted to be like my dad, who was an academic, because he had an office packed full of books, always had loud music on, and seemed to get to do what he wanted.
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The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.
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