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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
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View all 252 →I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
Procrastination.
Intermittent laziness.
More from Sarah Hadland
View profile →Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
You are good enough.
Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
Speedy, bossy, loving.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
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