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

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Recorded Henry R. Kravis said elsewhere, not written here
With all due respect to Procter & Gamble, I wanted to be an entrepreneur.

KKR, 2024 source ↗

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Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
14. I always played music until then, just like piano lessons. Viola, violin and clarinet as a kid. But at 14 I started playing guitar and I was like, “this is it. This is what I want”. I am so thankful that I had this single mission from the age of 14 till 29. For 15 years of my life I wanted nothing but to be a great musician.
Recorded Joe Ciccarone, podcast transcript, Built Not Born, 13 July 2022 source ↗
Geoffrey Rush Australian actor
I dreamt of being an astronomer, I had a series of How and Why Books on the planets and the stars.
Recorded Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 3 February 2017 source ↗
Joanne Froggatt English actress
An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗

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