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What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Barry Scheck Defence lawyer; co-founder of the Innocence Project
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Recorded Frontline, PBS, 4 December 2002 source ↗

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I am of course honoured to get this recognition for all the work I’ve done over the years, but I’m also proud for my family and for my native country and my adopted country, and especially for Turkey it’s quite important.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize, 7 October 2015 source ↗

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