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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2020 source ↗
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Mike Skinner
English rapper
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
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.
Peter Capaldi
Actor and director
I have been pretty terrible in quite a lot of terrible things.
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The fact that I am still making music.
Funny and generous.
Sometimes it was disappointing not to have the fan base at home in the UK that we had elsewhere.
Last year, when I had all four kids – Daisy, Kingston, Zuma and Apollo – staying with me on my birthday. It was magical.
Sid Vicious doing My Way.
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