Charles Dance
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
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I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
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Andrea Riseborough
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Either shredding duck in a Chinese restaurant, or Oblivion.
Judith Kerr
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Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
Charlotte Church
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It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.
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That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
My buddy Kenny Laguna. He’s a person of extraordinary character, he’s intelligent, and a very good friend.
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