Sandi Toksvig
Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Picking up dog poop at home: my sister and I used to take turns.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗
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Martin Compston
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There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.
Kevin Rowland
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I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
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