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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
Working in a call centre in Cardiff for British Gas. I was 21 and, I am ashamed to say, one Monday morning I ran away. I said I was going to the loo and never went back.
I once had to sit on a sleigh and pretend to be Bing Crosby for a corporate party. I had to mime to White Christmas over and over again.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
I haven't seen a ghost yet.
Growing up in the 70s, in the country in England and Ireland.
A single-malt whisky.
To fail better next time.
Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
Michael Ball, Alison Steadman, Peter Capaldi, Tom Ellis, David Jason, Romesh Ranganathan
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