The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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That money doesn’t buy happiness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗
This country’s enchantment with privately educated, self-serving liars.
Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
Realising I was never going to make it big in professional swing dance.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
I worked with Stephen Fry recently and we had a real heart-to-heart. I asked: “What was it like being in prison for being gay?” And thank God someone came in and he didn’t hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell.
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
Lovely but useless.
Thinking I’ve upset somebody.
Some man in the street stopped me and said: “If you were a few inches taller you’d be dangerous.” I’ve no idea what he meant.
Losing my makeup bag.
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