The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Having a family and still loving each other.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
I’m proud of my achievements at the Olympics. But I prepare in exactly the same way for every race.
That my son is kind and he loves David Bowie.
Apart from two Olympic gold medals, I’m proud of finishing fifth in the Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2016, having never ridden a horse 12 months earlier.
A selection of single paragraphs that perfectly capture something I’ve thought or felt, even if it’s shameful or perverse.
Wearing 90s ripped-at-the-crotch jeans at Rada during an unarmed combat session and showing everyone more than they bargained for.
Maxi-multitasking.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
As little rubbish to sort through as possible.
This year, I was asked to be a judge for the Women’s prize for fiction and I’ve read 75 books in six months, so I’m parking shame for the time being.
Laura Mvula, Robson Green, Omid Djalili, Fran Lebowitz, Nicholson Baker, Kate Nash
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