My wife, because of the lessons we’ve learned and what we have overcome over the course of our time together.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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How close have you come to death?
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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.
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The missus. She is the glamour mamma mia at the top of our feudal pyramid. We all live together, so she’s a full-time grandmother and rules the roost. How she steered us through lockdown was extraordinary.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
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My mom and dad. They always encouraged me to keep spiritual things first.
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My mother. She raised four children pretty much on her own. My father was around, but always out at work.
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This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
I was nearly hit by an enormous gold-fibreglass cherub in a shopping centre. It fell five storeys and smashed into a thousand pieces about 4ft away from me.
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