Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Follow your dream and never give up, because it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Ride the adventure!
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
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The world doesn’t consist of bad and good people; it consists of people seeing things in a different way.
We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
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I bought a Mercedes convertible brand new in 2016 and I’ve only done 4,000 miles. I love cars – if I’m going to blow it, it’ll be on a sports car. I already have my eyes on the next one – I’ll get Simon Cowell to buy it.
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
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