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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I did want to be an actor from an early age although I briefly dabbled with the idea of being a vet until I realised you had to stick your hand up a cow’s arse.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2017 source ↗
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
A writer, I’m sorry to say. Boring, I know, but true.
A fishmonger, then a surgeon.
Malala Yousafzai; she’s a wonderful humanitarian.
That my son is kind and he loves David Bowie.
To anyone who gets into my car, because it’s such a mess.
Hollywood Boulevard, it’s grubby, sticky and somehow terribly sad.
Mathew Horne, Joanna Scanlan, David Harewood, Ralph Ineson, Martin Sheen, John Malkovich
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