Benedict Cumberbatch
English actor
Amber, my aunt, and her boyfriend, Gian Luigi Valino – he has primary lateral sclerosis and she cares for him.
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?
Death & what remains
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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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 did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
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.
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
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Liz Jones
British journalist
Celia Hammond: she gave up a glamorous life to rescue cats.
Terry Wogan
Irish-British radio and television broadcaster
The present Lady Wogan, for putting up with me for 46 years of marriage. The woman's a saint.
Adeel Akhtar
British actor
My mum, because she smuggled me into the National Youth Theatre during summer time when my dad didn’t want me to be an actor, and she’s seen everything I’ve done.
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Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
My dog’s trust in me.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
I don’t care if I am remembered or not.
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