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What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Patricia Hodge
English actress
A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.
Chris Hoy
British track cyclist, 1994–2013
Scotland’s rugby captain. My hero Gavin Hastings was captain when he came to our school for a training session when I was 10 or 11. I met him and was blown away.
Edmund Hillary
Mountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
I really had no idea whatsoever. I feel that my life developed as I went along. I was never one of those people who, at an early age, had picked an objective and worked steadily towards it. All I knew was that I wanted to get involved in adventurous activity. I didn’t have any specific type of activity in mind, but I wanted to do things that were exciting and adventurous. I had a fairly diffused feeling as to what precisely it should be.
John Malkovich
American actor
A baseball pitcher.
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Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
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