Jane Asher
English actress and author
Not to take anything for granted.
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When were you happiest?
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Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen, I think there's evil in the world, but I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.
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Christi Parsons, James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the White House, The White House (Obama administration archive), 18 January 2017
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Gino D'Acampo
Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
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Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
Effervescence in the soul.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
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