Jeremy Deller
English artist
Three squaddies on a train in 1995.
How close have you come to death?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was 13, I was on a bicycle and got hit by a taxi in New York.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2017 source ↗
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John Malkovich
Actor
When I was an idiot high school student, as opposed to being an idiot adult, I used to drive very fast.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
Bertie Carvel
British actor
I held my mother’s hand as she passed away.
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I Happen To Like New York: I tell people all the time, so they will be sure not to forget.
Michelle Obama (not that Barack wouldn’t be right up there). She seems genuinely to enjoy her life and do the best with all the tasks that she sets her mind to.
Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
As a citizen, a person involved in my community.
My children, and my sanity. For a child actor, I think it’s noteworthy.
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