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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
When I was doing A-levels, I worked in a factory that made homework diaries, which was fine until they banned talking and the radio.
When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.
A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
Not having longer legs.
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
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