Fran Healy
Scottish musician
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I can be properly stubborn sometimes – but that’s me being a classic Leo.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2023 source ↗
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Jane Asher
English actress and author
Minding not being liked.
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My self-criticism.
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View profile →Probably missing out on roles I really, really wanted, but I’m a big believer that if it’s for you, you’ll have it. So those clearly weren’t for me.
You’ve got to keep trying because you don’t know what amazing things are round the corner. Also, always be grateful – at one point you wished to be where you are today.
As someone who loved her family and friends, worked hard, got successful and had a lovely time in the process.
That I wouldn’t be successful. Joke’s on them, I guess.
My phone and social media.
When people are disingenuous.
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