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I worked in a TGI Fridays when I was 19 and came to London for the first time. It was absolutely horrible and I got fired after two weeks.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗
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Ricky Wilson
Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Shane MacGowan
Irish singer-songwriter
Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.
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I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
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