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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2013 source ↗
Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
When I think of my mother. After my father left, she became an alcoholic and wallowed in resentment.
When I am working on something I really like, or when I am alone with my son playing in the garden.
Just In Time, by Nina Simone.
I wish I'd never smoked.
Cybill Shepherd, Angus Deayton, Orlando Bloom, Emilia Fox, Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling
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