The question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I was working on 747 hydraulic systems, and my friends pressured me to enter a Steve Martin look-alike contest. I did not look like him, but I thought I understood what Martin was driving at. After I won, I started doing standup. I would work at the drawing board during the day, take a nap, and then do standup at night.
ASME, ASME, 6 February 2014 source ↗
A pop star: I loved music from a very young age.
Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
Well, in a certain sense, the decision that I was the one who was going to be writing was already formed when I was 12 years old when I was spending those winter evenings reading Verne and other authors; I thought then that books were the best thing in the world. That this was something I wanted to do.
J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.
I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.
Jumping to conclusions. We all create hypotheses in undisciplined fashion, and then you have to go back and be intellectually disciplined.
I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.
I disagree with virtually everything I’ve ever seen on Fox News, but I watch it anyway.
I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.
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