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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
One of the things that Michelle and I are proud of is that we came through the White House with our souls intact. Everybody has heard: Power corrupts. I do think if you are placed in such an artificial situation, and your office has great importance, there is a tendency for people to want to please you. To not be as honest with you. We fought against that.
That way madness lies.
Getting to challenge the status quo by being myself, just existing openly and honestly and boldly on a public level. It hasn’t always been easy, and it came with its fair set of challenges and sacrifices, and I am proud of that.
Alan Bennett, because he has been such a huge influence on me.
A Day In The Life by the Beatles.
I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.
Omid Djalili, Robson Green, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gemma Whelan, John Waters, Katherine Parkinson
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