The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
Keep working, improving your step.
To keep trying to listen to yourself.
To believe my eyes and not my ears.
As not being a total bollix.
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
I’m not fond of snakes.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
Daphne Guinness, Desmond Tutu, Billy Crudup, Lucy Lawless, Giovanna Fletcher, Michelle Visage
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