Bintou Keita: What has been your biggest disappointment? — FLAPSS

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What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Bintou Keita

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General; head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

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Jaime Winstone English actress

England losing the World Cup.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2012 source ↗

Zoë Heller English journalist and novelist

Failing CSE Physics. Twice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2008 source ↗

Penny Lancaster

Trusting someone and being let down.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗

Alan Titchmarsh Gardener and broadcaster

That I have lost both my parents.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2005 source ↗

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I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

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I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

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I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

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I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

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Question What is your favourite side project? Craft & work

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

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I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

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