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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
David Walliams, for making the transition from comic actor to bestselling kids’ author. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do the same.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗
My wife, because of the lessons we’ve learned and what we have overcome over the course of our time together.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2025 source ↗
United Farm Workers organizer Dolores Huerta.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
Before kids, when I was 13 or so, on the back of my horse, running at full speed in an open pasture. Post kids, happiness happens often, but in more subtle ways. I now prefer the word “content”.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
To strangers. Living in New York, I see individuals every day who are invisible to so many. I want to say sorry that so many of us think their pain and suffering is not our own.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
My father’s death before my marriage and motherhood.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
The birth of my daughter.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
As someone who didn’t waste a minute.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
Abi Morgan, Adam Clayton, Adeel Akhtar, Adwoa Aboah, Alfre Woodard, Alice Eve
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