High-functioning introvert.
How would you describe yourself in three words?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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Lovely but useless.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗
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Impatient, ambitious and happy.
Passionate, mum, green.
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View profile →I worked with Stephen Fry recently and we had a real heart-to-heart. I asked: “What was it like being in prison for being gay?” And thank God someone came in and he didn’t hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell.
Losing my makeup bag.
I remember going to my auntie Pauline’s house in winter when I was eight or nine and she made me a roast beef sandwich. I ate it and fell asleep next to a fire. I felt like a cat, fed and left to nap.
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
That money doesn’t buy happiness.
Thinking I’ve upset somebody.
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