Driving golf balls into the cricket pavilion on summer evenings in my pajamas.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
When were you happiest?
Question
What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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.
Childhood, up until the age of seven, when my sister died.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2013 source ↗
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View all 576 →Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗
Patricia Hodge
English actress
In the minutes, hours, days and weeks after having my children. I was 42 and 45. There’s nothing like new life.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗
Lupita Nyong'o
Actress
I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2019 source ↗
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View profile →I have wet eyes sometimes, but I cried all my tears in my youth.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2013 source ↗
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