Stuart Broad
English former cricketer and commentator
Winning the Ashes in 2009.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to leave your children?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In the orange blossom-filled streets of Seville, snogging on a park bench.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2013 source ↗
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At the altar all seven times.
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
But the years 1895 to 1900 which are the staple of this story exceed in vividness, variety and exertion anything I have known—except of course the opening months of the Great War. When I look back upon them I cannot but return my sincere thanks to the high gods for the gift of existence. All the days were good and each day better than the other. Ups and downs, risks and journeys, but always the sense of motion, and the illusion of hope.
Recorded
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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View profile →My short film, Scrubber, in 2011. At that time in my life it seemed easier to pay for it myself than to apply for funds.
I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.
A sense of optimism.
Realising I was never going to make it big in professional swing dance.
Confident, stressed, greedy.
I have a deep-rooted fear of being in trouble. I once tried to sneak into the back of a photography exhibition with my husband when one of our kids was in a pushchair. We’d arrived late and he suggested we go in through the gift shop and see the last room. As we poked our heads round the door, the security guard noticed us. I shouted, “That man’s trying to get in!”, then ran away.
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