What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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Recorded James Blunt said elsewhere, not written here
A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗

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Vick Hope British television and radio presenter
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗
Armistead Maupin American writer
Not a lawyer, which was what I told everyone, because my father wanted me to be one.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

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