Sheryl Crow
American singer-songwriter
I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.
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I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.
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Victoria Pendleton
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Six weeks in my dad’s office doing admin was enough to persuade me to pursue a career in sport.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
At a pub in Rotherham. I was a really bad waitress and I ended up being demoted to chopping the potatoes and I even got fired from that.
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Not yet being able to sing in a free Cuba.
Being able to communicate with people all over the world through my music.
A song I wrote years ago called Remember Me With Love.
Comforting, solid, unconditional, a drug.
1 March 1991, when I got back on the stage almost a year after a road accident in our tour bus. I felt like I had climbed Mount Everest. That was euphoric.
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