The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗
Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.
The Blazing World.
I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
That I have strong, happy girls.
Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.
Chris Bonington, Martin Sheen, Roger Allam, Belinda Carlisle, Sofie Gråbøl, Jenny Agutter
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