What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Recorded Johnny Flynn said elsewhere, not written here
When I left drama school, I thought I was going to work at the Royal Court and tell stories about political injustice. I got cast in ITV murder mysteries.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 April 2022 source ↗

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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. … And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.
Recorded Jon Sopel, BBC News interview, the White House, 24 July 2015 source ↗
Annie Mac Irish broadcaster and DJ
Not getting into drama college in Dublin. I cut all my hair off as a sort of self-punishment for being crap.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 May 2010 source ↗
Kevin Pietersen English cricketer
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗

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