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 ↗
Nothing is the same as the sense of pride and achievement I feel when I see my kids growing up and enjoying the simple pleasures in life.
The Blazing World.
That I am still creative.
I am a terrible driver, so not having killed myself or anyone else, so far.
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
I always relate love to happiness.
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.
Not investing in bitcoin.
Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
Michael Stipe, Rob Delaney, Nish Kumar, Mo Farah, John Prescott, Sofia Coppola
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