Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?
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Jessica Brown Findlay
English actress
My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
Mo Gilligan
British comedian
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
Simone Biles
United States artistic gymnast
Nothing. Everything has led me to who and where I am now.
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View profile →A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
Nothing, really. But without little sleeping pills, I’d go crazy.
In my professional life, the musical Chess on Broadway. It was a resounding fiasco and played for two months. The butcher of Broadway, Frank Rich of the New York Times, was probably very pleased: I’ve never seen such a bad review in my life.
Bill Gates. Not only did he build Microsoft, he went on with his wife to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They support the, in my view, single most important factor in making the world a better place – empowerment of women and girls.
It’s a calm and secure feeling of deep loyalty.
If it wasn’t for coronavirus, it would be right now. All my life I’ve felt a pressure to achieve. It’s gone now, and that gives me a sense of freedom. Whenever I, for short moments, forget about corona and climate change, I’m happy.
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