Busta Rhymes
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I always wanted to be a rapper.
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To work in a dry cleaner’s.
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Dominic West
English actor
I wanted to race cars.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
I wanted to be in the WWF – the wrestling one, not the wildlife one.
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View profile →Too many of my friends, family and peers dying.
I had a bad heart attack 20 years ago: I think I slid off the mortal coil for about 30 seconds.
When I hit 30 and managed to get a council flat in London. It was in the most terrible state, but it was bliss to have a flat of my own.
When I watched a series called Pose. The hospital scenes took me right back to when we were going through the Aids years. It’s the same with It’s a Sin.
I don’t care, because I won’t be here.
I had a midlife crisis and paid 70 grand for a Morgan AeroMax which looked just like Cruella de Vil’s car. I was in a permanent state of terror and soon sold it.
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