Nicholas Hoult: What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

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Nicholas Hoult

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 July 2010 source ↗

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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008

If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. … And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.

Recorded Jon Sopel, BBC News interview, the White House, 24 July 2015 source ↗

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian