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Prime minister and brain surgeon.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Alison Moyet
English singer
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
Lucy Worsley
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A spy, a witch and a nun.
Ann Patchett
American author
A writer. Always.
Warwick Davis
English actor
I didn’t have a chance to want to be anything – I became an actor at 11.
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Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney.
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
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