Phil Daniels
English actor and singer
When I was a kid, I ran everywhere, pretending I was in the Olympics, and would always sprint the last 20 yards home to win gold.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
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Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer
Filming Much Ado About Nothing. In my home, with my family and my besties and the bard all around. Pure joy.
My wedding day, and when my children were first placed in my arms.
Noah Harari
Israeli historian and philosopher
Now. I’ve learned to adjust my expectations to reality better than when I was 20 or 10.
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View profile →To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
My creative freedom. I was the creative director of a large fashion brand when I packed it all in to pursue my writing.
My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
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