The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting a house. I didn’t think that was a possibility for me. I’ve been able to do amazing things – Netflix, tours, winning a Bafta – but having something you own is hard, so that’s really up there.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗
Getting up the noses of a handful of truly horrible misogynists.
Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
Being happy. I think that transcends the results of my matches, the so-called successes or failures. How would you like to be remembered? As someone who dedicated their life to what they were doing at the time. Right now, it’s tennis, but I want to have the same dedication for whatever I do after, whether it be motherhood or another career.
I am a pretty good dog mum.
Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
Not investing in bitcoin.
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
I always relate love to happiness.
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
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