"I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."
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"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.“
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