Lupita Nyong'o
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I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
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Selling double glazing.
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Tess Daly
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Serving bar snacks in a pub in my teens. Once I spilled an entire family’s Sunday lunch into the dad’s lap.
Chaka Khan
American singer
When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
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People seeing their own greatness, rather than buying into their fears.
As someone who brought people together through music.
I was caught by a wave while swimming at night with friends in Southampton. That shook me.
Watching the 2015 movie Aloha.
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