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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.
A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.
I wanted to play for Tottenham.
Until I got curtains recently, it was the orange street light.
Anybody who’s written to me and not heard back yet.
The ability to switch off.
Other people can decide.
That I’ve kept all my friendships with my school friends.
I cry when I am overtired.
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