To be blonde. It was just my ambition in life. Just to be blonde.
Laura Brown, harper by Harper's BAZAAR, Harper's Bazaar, 9 February 2015 source ↗
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?Originally asked
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
At the end he asked me if I would like to go into the Army. I thought it would be splendid to command an Army, so I said 'Yes' at once: and immediately I was taken at my word. ... I was told later that he had only come to the conclusion that I was not clever enough to go to the Bar. However that may be, the toy soldiers turned the current of my life.
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Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930
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Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
Patricia Hodge
English actress
A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.
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