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I never set my sights that high, so I’m not disappointed with anything.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 December 2021 source ↗
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Adeel Akhtar
British actor
After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
Una Stubbs
British actress, television personality, and dancer
Never learning another language.
Not joining the circus.
Samira Ahmed
British journalist and writer
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
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Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
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