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People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗
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View all 193 →Cruelty to animals or children.
The ability to stress me out.
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
The inability to appreciate true talent.
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View profile →When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
My creative freedom. I was the creative director of a large fashion brand when I packed it all in to pursue my writing.
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