Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
Money & investment
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Whom do you read even though you disagree with them?
Attention & the world
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don't think you should do the serious stuff, you're not cut out for it.
Tim Lewis, Observer New Review Q&A, The Guardian, 20 January 2013 source ↗
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Bruno Tonioli
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Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
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Because I loved it when I was young.
It will be great if the plays stay funny.
I’ve been reading – and fighting – Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts; feeling admiration and anger in equal parts.
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
Screenwriting is more lawyering than writing.
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