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

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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.

Recorded Madhur Jaffrey said elsewhere, not written here
A doctor, a painter, an actress.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 February 2021 source ↗

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Melissa McCarthy American actress
I wanted to make women’s clothing. I also said that I wanted to be an artist; I don’t think I ever said I wanted to be an actress, but I remember thinking that would be fun.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 January 2019 source ↗
Rick Astley Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

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