He spent his schooldays learning how to bash metal before deciding to get a law degree.

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The pair have known each other since their schooldays and lived at the same address in Manchester.

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In my schooldays we made books that were hand illustrated and written by students using sticks as bindings.

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His beginnings were clear enough: born in Cork, brought up in Soho, undistinguished schooldays, a wartime in the navy.

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He told jurors how he had been interested in chemistry since schooldays and kept chemicals at home to carry out "classic textbook experiments".

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And, though John Paul may have made a convert, the new Brother Fidel who cheerfully admits that during his schooldays he thought more about girls than lessons (or the church) is new only up to a point.

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And therefore it was not until at the end of my schooldays, 16, 17, that I really became aware of music as a professional existence and I realised that I somehow belonged inside this absolutely strange world.

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The favourite target of the critics is Juan Villalonga, a pal of Mr Aznar from his schooldays, whom he made head of Telefonica when it was state-owned, and who is now one of the richest men in the land.

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