Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
David Spade’s assistant.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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It will be the one or two or three senior Republican leaders who take a public and forceful stand against the ugly lunacy of the Trump administration.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
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My mother, because she raised all of us. I do have a dad, but in those days dads never helped with the kids.
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With dozens upon dozens of beautiful women weeping over my casket.
My children’s education.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.
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