The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
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View all 403 →Barack Obama – just for the simple fact he took the shot and went all the way to president.
My mum – I've watched her struggle financially, emotionally, mentally even, and she's come through it.
My grandmother, Marianne Karlsson.
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View profile →I had this idiotic manager for a while who got me an Armani suit and then got the money off me.
I never set my sights that high, so I’m not disappointed with anything.
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.
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