Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
My dog wanting to go out for a wee.
What keeps you awake at night?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
Failure & regret
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The same as most people. Money and, will I ever work again?
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
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Yayoi Kusama
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I am an insomniac, so I often draw and write at night.
All the big ones – climate change, safety for our children, money.
Alan Shepard
Naval aviator and astronaut; the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon
We had a couple of cliffhangers on Apollo XIV. In the first place, we tried to dock with the lunar module, and that didn’t work, so it could have been the end of the deal, but we finally got that organized. And then, the actual landing on the surface. We were supposed to get an update from the radar, we couldn’t go below 13,000 feet, and that came in only at the last minute. So there were a lot of little nervous things that kept you awake all the way down until you landed.
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Breathlessness.
Chipping rust off a crane.
I would not get married until I was in my 30s.
My tendency to be inappropriate.
Every bad thing that’s happened, apart from Mum and Dad dying, it’s always led to something better. Always.
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