Andrea Riseborough
British actress
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
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Although I have a driving licence, I don't drive – I am very bad at it.
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Sam Neill
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My complete ineptitude at sport.
Sandy Powell
British costume designer
Not meeting David Bowie, but then they say it’s best not to meet your heroes.
My A-level results in 1998. I flunked my history A-level and lost my place at Cambridge. It broke my heart for years; now I’m really glad, because I pull out the whole “I went to a polytechnic” thing. But at the time for a teenager who was rather pleased with herself, it was absolutely devastating.
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An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
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