Kathleen Turner
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When the acting is going really well – when I am flying.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗
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Kirsty Young
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Running down a hill in midsummer sunshine aged eight, singing ELO's Mr Blue Sky.
Watching my sons ski down a mountain for the first time.
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With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
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I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
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