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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Shinya Yamanaka
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
I was born in Osaka, Japan. It was 45 years ago. My father has a small factory in Osaka, and we lived next to his factory
David Gandy
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One of the Ghostbusters.
Paul O'Grady
British comedian, actor and television presenter
To work in a dry cleaner’s.
A fighter pilot.
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View profile →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.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
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.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
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