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

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Recorded Richard Coles said elsewhere, not written here
A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

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Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
At the end he asked me if I would like to go into the Army. I thought it would be splendid to command an Army, so I said 'Yes' at once: and immediately I was taken at my word. ... I was told later that he had only come to the conclusion that I was not clever enough to go to the Bar. However that may be, the toy soldiers turned the current of my life.
Recorded Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930 source ↗
Rose McGowan American actress and activist
A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗

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