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The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗
You’ve got to keep trying because you don’t know what amazing things are round the corner. Also, always be grateful – at one point you wished to be where you are today.
To stay in the moment and live each day to the maximum. You never know when it’s going to be taken away.
That things change.
Not really. I thought that getting the Nobel Prize was a big interruption in my career, I thought and it was very distracting. It takes a lot of time you know, it just takes time to be honoured, you have to travel and you have to give speeches of things you have, oh it’s so often that you get bored to tears when you hear your own voice. And it’s really taking a lot of your time and there’s no way that during this time you can start something new, I mean you just profit from what you’ve done and there is no time to develop new ideas.
On the way here, because I was late.
Not having the ability to say sorry when they’re wrong.
As an Italian, tinned spaghetti. As a child, I was once served it at someone’s house. It was quite frightening.
Finally nailing being on time.
I’ve enjoyed every single job, including working at my dad’s chicken shop selling potato gems (fried potato circles) to the surfer dudes.
None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
Fearne Cotton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Isabel Allende, Phoebe Dynevor, Roger McGough, John Waters
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