When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
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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.
Right now. It's a beautiful thing to find yourself "the wrong side of 40" and more in love with life than ever. I never tell people this publicly as they wrongly assume the only valid creative state is that of the cliche of the tubercular, tortured artist coughing up blood in his garret.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2011 source ↗
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In elementary school. I loved learning.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
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