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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗
We are too often advised to live life to the fullest. That’s too much pressure. The key is to find joy and poignancy in the quiet and mundane. Life is lived between the so-called big moments.
Block out the noise and trust your gut.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
So I think failure is important in my career.
My financial incompetence.
Technically, Ibiza 1990, because of the amount of ecstasy I’d taken.
With an international holiday.
A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.
My paso doble on Strictly Come Dancing would be hard to beat.
The best thing in the world.
Maggie O'Farrell, Clive James, Pauline McLynn, Jack Whitehall, Maurice Sendak, Tony Judt
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