Mike Wallace
American journalist
Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.
When were you happiest?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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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.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗
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Andy Serkis
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When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
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When I am working. I hate to say it.
Griff Rhys Jones
British actor and comedian
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
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I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
That I can’t control it.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
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