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.
To be led by love and not judgment.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗
Don’t overcook pasta.
That it will go on quite happily without me.
We are not here for long – try not to take everything too seriously.
To be here in this one moment.
The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
I changed my mind on airing my views. Sometimes silence is better.
As someone who tried, who had dignity, and stuck to what she believed in despite the storms.
I campaigned for a creative industry regulatory body, and that’s now happening in the next 18 months. It’s called CIISA [Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority]. I’m proud that I set the ball rolling and dared to challenge the establishment.
Antiques and art – I collect 17th‑century portraits.
Gregory Porter, Rory Stewart, Jack Whitehall, Frank Bowling, Marcus Brigstocke, Justin Hawkins
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