The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
Decent arts funding.
Getting my 21-year-old knees back.
Stopping being such a helicopter parent and worrying about these grownup children’s lives. It drives me mad. And I am having therapy. If I could stop thinking that I should be their first port of call for everything, it would free my head up a bit.
A single-malt whisky.
Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
Hamza Yassin, John Grisham, Peter Sarsgaard, Sarah Hadland, Marina Abramović, Harry Redknapp
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