Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix
As the biggest, brightest, most bodacious badass that ever lived.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2017
One question · 6 of 231 answers to it
What would you like to be remembered for?
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
English snooker player
As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
British singer
As someone who brought people together through music.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2016
Australian professional tennis player
As someone who got the absolute most out of themselves.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2016
As someone who did what he could with what he had.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2018
As someone who loved the ideals of American democracy and made my small contribution to it.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2019
Answers marked Recorded were said elsewhere and are quoted with the publication and date they came from. Those people have not joined — nobody here answers on anyone else's behalf.
What would you like to leave your children?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
Without question, the only legacy that really matters to me is the one I leave with my children.
Recorded · The Great Discontent · 2012
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Shortly after my terminal diagnosis, I knew that one of my biggest priorities was to create memories for my children.
Recorded · Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science · 2007
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
When were you happiest?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
American actor
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2017
British socialite
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2024
On stage. Always on stage. God that’s depressing, isn’t it?
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
Has knowing that you will die changed how you live?
Historian and essayist
I see the future as something that could come crashing down very fast. Let me put it slightly by way of a comparison.
Recorded · NPR · 2010
Songwriter and musician
I just thought right away that I wanted to work. ... This is a good job. It's been a good job. Work is the most effective drug there can possibly be. ...
Recorded · The New York Times Magazine · 2003
Historian of American Christianity; professor at Duke Divinity School
Every 90 days I lie in a whirling CT machine, dye coursing through my veins, and the doctors look to see whether the tumors in my liver are growing.
Recorded · The New York Times · 2018
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You are dealt a few questions at a time and answer the ones you want to. What you write gets a permanent address and keeps it. Rewrite it whenever you like and say why — the new version goes up beside the old one rather than over it, so changing your mind reads as thinking rather than as a reversal.
You write before you read. Other members' answers to a question stay shut until you have answered it or passed on it, because reading first changes what you would have said. Passing is free and it is permanent.
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