The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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.
Haven’t done it yet.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Being married for 17 years and having two amazing children.
There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
That way madness lies.
Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
I think that’s a thesis.
People who think they’re always right.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
Well, I’m always right.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
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