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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Rose McGowan
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A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.
Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
In the Beatles.
Felicity Jones
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A magazine editor.
Michelle Dockery
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Many things. I remember wanting to be a vet, a ballet dancer and a hairdresser.
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View profile →Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
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