Hugh Grant
Actor
I am unable to use scissors.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wish I could be more patient. I always want things to get done or happen now.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗
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Julian Lennon
English musician, photographer, and philanthropist
Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
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View profile →Every time I go on a plane I feel awful about it. So for me, and everyone in the world, being able to board an electric plane would be really cool.
The last time I really sobbed was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s documentary about his stuntman on the Harry Potter movies [David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived].
My mum [the actor, Sally Dynevor] in so many ways. She is the real definition of a superwoman to me.
That everything happens for a reason.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
So many things. Every headline in the newspaper, global warming … the list goes on.
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