John Simm
English musician and actor
Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Always sleep on any decision.
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That there is no ideal life. Disappointments sit around every corner, so enjoy the here and now.
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