I am so obdurate I do not change my mind.
When was the last time you changed your mind about something?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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How close have you come to death?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
The exact question was part of every retrieved Vox 9 Questions installment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
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The US election showed me that I had trapped myself in wishful thinking.
Two days ago. To move to New York.
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Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
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.
Ponderous, over thinking.
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.
I spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
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