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An actor or stuntman: I loved Lee Majors in The Fall Guy.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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I always wanted to be a pilot
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A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.
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