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Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
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Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer
When I was 19, I washed up in the basement of a Paris restaurant that stank of rotted food. I did it for six months, until I was promoted to vegetable boy.
Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
Bedpan emptier in a hospital.
Ricky Wilson
Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.
Shappi Khorsandi
Iranian-born British comedian
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
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You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
Rhythm patterns from my dance shows.
The day my son was born.
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