Kate Mosse: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Kate Mosse said elsewhere, not written here

First I wanted to be in the circus, then a tap dancer, then prime minister. I have failed at all three.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2022 source ↗

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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.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Andrea Bocelli