Francesca Martinez
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A never-ending hug.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Like when you get the giggles in a room full of people where you should be quiet.
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Stephen Graham
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Warm contentment, and like nothing else exists.
Robert Bathurst
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Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
Big Narstie
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It isn’t supposed to hurt, I know that.
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View profile →When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world’s number one tennis player.
Being happy. I think that transcends the results of my matches, the so-called successes or failures. How would you like to be remembered? As someone who dedicated their life to what they were doing at the time. Right now, it’s tennis, but I want to have the same dedication for whatever I do after, whether it be motherhood or another career.
My parents, because they did what they did to give me the opportunities to do what I do. They left their lives behind in Australia and started again in their 40s in a new country.
When I was a young girl in Sydney, I used to go running with my dad. I would wake him up at the crack of dawn and we had this route to the top of a golf course – we’d usually make it there for sunrise.
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