The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?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.
To tell the truth.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗
Be true to yourself.
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
Life’s too short to take offence.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
It would improve the quality of all of our lives if we just got rid of all unessential vehicles in New York City.
I was doing The Seagull with Carey Mulligan and Kristin Scott Thomas on Broadway. I walked out on stage and looked at Carey and said: “I’ve no idea what to say.” It was pretty deep into the run and it took me by surprise.
The Middle East crisis.
Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.
Nurturing, musical, uncompromising.
Not finishing things.
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