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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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗
When we had children at home. But recently I finished a book about old secrets that I’ve been working on for a long time, and when I was done, I felt a gigantic, joyful relief in having escaped from the corn maze of remembered facts in which I’d been wandering for so long.
When my son was born in 2000.
I have a lot to be grateful for, but right now, being married. Having time to be with my husband and his children. I feel very grateful.
The first time I played a complete song on the guitar. It was A Day In The Life, by the Beatles.
How doesn’t matter—it’s when that matters. When I’m ready!
Bob Dylan: his great gift as a poet and musician, his long, incorruptible career—and he continues to tour constantly.
A crippling accident.
Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
Abigail Breslin, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Alan Cumming
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