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.

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Bob Woodward

Investigative reporter and author; associate editor of The Washington Post

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I studied history and English at Yale, which I attended on an NROTC (Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps) scholarship. After college I served in the Navy five years.

N/A, N/A, Bob Woodward's Official Website, 1 June 2024 source ↗

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Martin Sheen American actor
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
Nick Grimshaw English television and radio presenter
Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗
Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

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