The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?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.
Stay out of other people’s business.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
Dying too young, and spiders.
People who aren’t kind enough.
Gloria Hunniford’s wedding at Hever Castle 20-odd years ago. We had a lovely buffet and a few drinks and then I had to get a cab back to the train station. I said to the driver: “I’m ever so sorry, but I’m not going to be able to hang on till I get to the train. Could you possibly take me down this alleyway?” He said: “Yes, of course.” As I prepared myself to go “to the ladies”, this police car came along and the policeman said: “Hi-de-Hi!”
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
Sarah Hadland, Peter Sarsgaard, Hamza Yassin, Marcus Mumford, Meghann Fahy, George H. W. Bush
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