What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Recorded Lolita Chakrabarti said elsewhere, not written here
That my first play, Red Velvet, took so many years to be done. It took me seven years to write and then five years to get to the stage.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2022 source ↗

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Jenna Coleman English actress
Receiving a letter saying I didn’t get into drama school. I felt like Billy Elliot. It was a crushing moment.
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Monty Don English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
At the time, losing our business, home and all our possessions in 1991 after the failure of our jewellery company. But if that had not happened then other good things would not have happened, either.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 May 2018 source ↗

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