At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be and I said fashion journalist, so writing for Vogue has provided me with the opportunity to fulfil a dream.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2011 source ↗
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Warwick Davis
English actor
Still being an actor after 36 years.
Daniel Mays
British actor
Bringing two kids into the world, but my interrogation scene in Line Of Duty comes a close second. It was 12 minutes long and, without question, the hardest passage of dialogue I’ve had to learn.
Ice-T
American rapper and actor
The transition from streetlife to the legitimate world.
Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
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Forgetfulness. I leave valuable possessions scattered around the globe.
I was filming T4 at T in the Park one year, and one person kept shouting, "Popworld cunt" at me. That sucked.
To be blonde. It was just my ambition in life. Just to be blonde.
I love curating things in general. I love writing. It might actually be the solution to my problem, my dilemma that I don't know what to do. It's because I like to do everything. I like to appease that nature of wanting to dabble in things.
I think you have to be open to failure. As a society, we’re now far too judgy, and we just don’t let people make mistakes.
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