Roger Allam
English actor
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
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Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
An astronaut, a writer, a dancer.
Edmund Hillary
Mountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
I really had no idea whatsoever. I feel that my life developed as I went along. I was never one of those people who, at an early age, had picked an objective and worked steadily towards it. All I knew was that I wanted to get involved in adventurous activity. I didn’t have any specific type of activity in mind, but I wanted to do things that were exciting and adventurous. I had a fairly diffused feeling as to what precisely it should be.
Gareth Bale
Welsh footballer
I just wanted to fulfil my potential.
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View profile →A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
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