The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Not being a professional footballer.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.
I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
Not becoming a ballerina.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Impatience and vanity.
We become fertiliser.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
Zack Polanski, George H. W. Bush, Robert Peston, Clare Balding, Jesse Jackson, Caroline Lucas
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