People who do not love. If you are not loving, you are not living. Why wouldn’t you love? What’s the problem?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Lack of understanding and tolerance.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗
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Arrogance and entitlement.
An arbitrary contrarian.
Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
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Earning a living as an actor for 40 years.
Playing a pregnant woman, and not being able to find the padding - I shoved a cardie under my dress, and spent the whole play walking around with a sleeve dragging along the floor.
I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
That we will drown in plastic waste.
When my son was born and I realised I was a mum.
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