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An ambulance driver.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Salman Rushdie
Indian-British-American novelist
A writer, I’m sorry to say. Boring, I know, but true.
Mo Farah
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A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
Björn Ulvaeus
Swedish musician
Successful like my two uncles, who were paper industry magnates.
Edward Fox
British actor
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
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When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.
That things change.
As a great mother, wife and songwriter.
A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
Some of those late nights.
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