Joan Jett
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An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
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A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗
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A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
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If my children could change their own nappies.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
Like nothing else, I guess.
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