What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Recorded Russell Tovey said elsewhere, not written here
Never learning to play the piano.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2010 source ↗

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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. … And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.
Recorded Jon Sopel, BBC News interview, the White House, 24 July 2015 source ↗
Samira Ahmed British journalist and writer
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗
Mandy Patinkin American actor and singer
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗
Hayley Atwell British American actress
Everything’s disappointing when it loses its shine. I’ve lowered my expectations.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 December 2018 source ↗

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