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Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
British journalist
I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
Sofia Helin
Swedish actress
Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
Ann Dowd
American actress
Trying to sell frozen food over the phone for a company called American Frozen Foods. It lasted about half an hour. I found myself telling people not to buy too much of it because it could go bad, and my supervisor said, “This job is probably not for you.”
Sheena Easton
Scottish singer
A cafeteria in Glasgow where the manager was horrible. I walked out and got a great job in a betting shop.
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David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
Being exquisitely alive.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
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