Henry Rollins
Musician, writer and broadcaster
Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.
What is your worst intellectual habit?
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What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it?
Failure & regret
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Craft & work
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Which writers or artists most influenced your work?
Taste & recommendation
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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?
Craft & work
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What are you still hoping to finish?
Death & what remains
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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox's fixed 9 Questions format asks this verbatim across respondents.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
if you have never suffered from self-loathing, lucky you.
Angela Wintle, This much I know, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet. I do not at all excuse myself for this foolish neglect of opportunities procured at so much expense by my parents and brought so forcibly to my attention by my Preceptors.
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Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930
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Jessica Henwick
Actress
I question everything. This is also my greatest intellectual habit.
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
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Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
My university tutor Raymond Williams.
One day you write nothing, the next you write eight pages. It’s not in your hands.
Because I loved it when I was young.
I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.
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