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.
You can only do one thing at a time.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
Don’t answer every question you’re asked.
You only get out what you put in. Karma – it all comes round.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
I woke up this morning thinking maybe I don’t want to be an actor any more, then I had breakfast and I thought: actually, no, I really like being an actor.
My partner was doing a play in Hong Kong last year and I went to visit him, and I bought him a beautiful teacup. But I didn’t look at the price tag before I took it to the till and it was £100, the most expensive teacup imaginable.
Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
Mistaking shyness for not having anything to say.
Ponderous, over thinking.
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