Joanne Froggatt
English actress
An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
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I dreamt of being an astronomer, I had a series of How and Why Books on the planets and the stars.
Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 3 February 2017 source ↗
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Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
And all the while I was growing up, of course, there were just constant conversations about money and money being tight and how are we going to make ends meet and sometimes not having enough money. And it really just made me committed to living a life with much more financial security.
A dress designer.
Lucy Worsley
English historian
A spy, a witch and a nun.
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It’s not sudden.
A lot of my decisions are made by instinct – you have a hunch.
His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar. I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.
But, tough, I have fallen…flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
He was vulnerable to all the sorts of contradictions that every human can be subject to.
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