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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
I am a terrible driver, so not having killed myself or anyone else, so far.
Haven’t done it yet.
I hope that’s yet to come. My Oscar? That was a combination of Holly Hunter being an amazing actress, Jane being an extraordinary director and me being in the right place at the right time. I had no idea what I was doing. It’s given me this amazing life, but it’s not the highlight of my career.
I always relate love to happiness.
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
Not investing in bitcoin.
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
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