The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?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.
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An artist, an interior designer and a vet.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
A trade union official.
My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
Going on stage and saying, “Good evening Lyon!” I was in Marseille.
Not being in pain – I have back problems and had shoulder surgery just before Christmas and there isn’t a day that goes by when I am not in pain.
Quiet, noisy, androgynous.
Somebody wrote that my voice was more numbing than novocaine.
Feeling so helpless. You feel that governments should be making better choices; people are speaking out and nothing seems to be done about it.
When I was little, a couple of rapes took place in Glasgow. I remember my mum saying to walk in the middle of the pavement, and to this day I am very conscious of where I am.
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