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

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Recorded David Hare said elsewhere, not written here
Because I loved it when I was young.

Jasper Rees, Q&A, The Arts Desk, 10 October 2009 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 ↗
Kate Mosse English writer
First I wanted to be in the circus, then a tap dancer, then prime minister. I have failed at all three.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2022 source ↗

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