Charles Dance
British actor
I’m getting closer all the time.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗
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Emily Mortimer
British actress
Giving birth is much more treacherous than people let on.
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
A death threat at Glastonbury festival in 1989. The police told me not to go on, but I said I had to because I was headlining. So I wore a bullet-proof vest. It seemed unlikely that I would be assassinated, but it was shocking and very stressful.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
When I was a kid in Tooting, our house caught fire. We didn’t realise until the fire brigade turned up.
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View profile →To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
I am a good sleeper.
My mother: she’s an inspiration. She went back to college in her 40s, started karate and became a black belt.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
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