Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
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Recovering from anorexia.
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Jenna Coleman
English actress
That I’ve kept all my friendships with my school friends.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
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Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985
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Jason Derulo
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Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
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