Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist
Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
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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.
Two friends who work for the NHS, Jason and Kate. One is a paramedic and one has been moved to work in an ICU.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗
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Jimmy Carter, for his wisdom and courage in going to meet Hamas.
Susan Greenfield
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An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
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I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.
A driving licence.
I wanted my own ice-cream van and to be a lollipop lady.
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