Dominic Cooper
English actor
Clive Stafford Smith, for his incredible work with the Reprieve charity.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What keeps you awake at night?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Carlos Acosta, for his incredible achievement in dance.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 October 2010 source ↗
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Harriet Walter
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Judith Clark, on whom I based my character in the prison trilogy. She has served over 35 years and turned herself around. She is an inspiration.
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A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
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