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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Right now. I am loving my children’s ages – Wyatt is nine and Levi is six – and I wish I could freeze time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗
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Emeli Sandé
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Last night, on stage in New York.
Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.
Björn Ulvaeus
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If it wasn’t for coronavirus, it would be right now. All my life I’ve felt a pressure to achieve. It’s gone now, and that gives me a sense of freedom. Whenever I, for short moments, forget about corona and climate change, I’m happy.
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I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
Euphoric and very calming.
I got very emotional yesterday with a dear friend who was telling me about his relationship falling apart.
The Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
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