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A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Not a lawyer, which was what I told everyone, because my father wanted me to be one.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I know that for a very long time my consuming passion, which was confirmed when I contracted TB — I had TB when I was about 12 or so — was I wanted to be a physician and when I got TB I was even more determined. I want to be physician so that I can find a cure for the scourge. And, in fact, I was admitted to medical school. If we had had the funds maybe today I would have been a physician.
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To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
Making films exactly how I wanted.
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
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