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Avoidance coping.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2024 source ↗
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Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
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Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
I talk over people all the time.
I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
Julian Lennon
English musician, photographer, and philanthropist
Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
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My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.
I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
Dolly Parton. I love how she does what she wants, and lives how she wants, keeping her life so private. Also, she helped fund Covid vaccine research.
That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
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