Gavin Rossdale
British musician
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
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Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
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Björn Ulvaeus
Swedish musician
A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
Mo Farah
British track and field athlete
I have worked in McDonald’s.
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
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View profile →An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
On my wedding day in Oxfordshire, six years ago.
I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
Being a decent person.
I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
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