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An ambulance driver.
Adam Zagajewski
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Well, in a certain sense, the decision that I was the one who was going to be writing was already formed when I was 12 years old when I was spending those winter evenings reading Verne and other authors; I thought then that books were the best thing in the world. That this was something I wanted to do.
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Jessica Brown Findlay
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A ballet dancer. I danced from age two to 19. Giving up was not a choice; I had complications in an ankle operation.
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