Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
Avoidance coping.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Procrastination.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗
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Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
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Trust my instincts.
A warm sunny day. You get this bubble around you and, all of a sudden, problems are halved.
I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
Not fulfilling my potential.
When I initially made money with the Corrs, I bought a Jaguar XK8.
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