Alison Moyet
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For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
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James Blunt
Singer, songwriter and musician
A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
Wimbledon champion. I won the title frequently when playing against a pebbledash wall at home in Ireland.
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
An astronaut, a writer, a dancer.
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A friend named Charles Strobel, who runs the Campus for Human Development in Nashville. It’s a homeless shelter. He lives a life of pure kindness, and he’s a funny guy.
Pulling yourself out of a wild ocean and on to a life raft.
I’ve never had a terrible job. I’ve been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are and I haven’t done them.
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