Adwoa Aboah
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I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
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A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.
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Huckleberry Finn.
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A surgeon. I studied pre-med in Holy Cross College for four years and then I went to acting school.
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When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
Seeing Leyton Orient in the premiership.
I’m president of my neighbourhood association. At my first meeting there was a discussion about developments the association should oppose. I said: “Nothing could be as bad as that horrible new house next to the church.” “I designed that,” the chairman replied. I shut up.
My cello. At the time, in 1983, it was £192,500.
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