Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
Aretha Franklin. I mean, she’s Aretha! That says it all.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Craft & work
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Peyton Manning.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2012 source ↗
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Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
Sheryl Crow
American singer-songwriter
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
David Attenborough, because he introduced me to the world.
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Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
Guys who use the word “snot.”
That they get it.
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
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