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A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗
Our beautiful cat was so ill that we were hours away from having her put down. Somehow, we’ve managed to nurse her back to full health again.
I cried this morning when I was meditating, for the first time. I had this real feeling of gratitude that my dad survived his addiction.
Recently watching (or trying to watch) 12 Years A Slave.
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
Mary Berry, June Brown, Ralf Little, Bill Bryson, Joan Collins, Anne Enright
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