A good listener.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What most recently made you cry?
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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.
I’d rather be enjoyed while I am still here.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 February 2022 source ↗
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Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
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As the woman who never died.
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Simply as a man who put a smile on the face of everyone he met.
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View profile →My biggest disappointment is always myself. That’s my Catholic upbringing.
It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
I wanted to be like my dad, who was an academic, because he had an office packed full of books, always had loud music on, and seemed to get to do what he wanted.
A caravan. I was brought up going on caravan holidays – but we quickly realised that a double-axle caravan was too much of a commitment and sold it.
There are different flavours of happy, but I think my favourite is the quiet contentment when several generations of family are sitting together watching a crowd-pleaser like Harry Potter on the telly.
The Strictly Come Dancing final almost destroyed me. I was howling all the way through – John and Johannes and then Rose and Giovanni. Oh my God.
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