Warwick Davis
English actor
As an actor who happens to be short.
What would you like to be remembered for?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As someone who didn’t waste a minute.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
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Fran Healy
Scottish musician
Having a few songs that outlive you is a nice way to be remembered.
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian writer and musician
As a nice guy, but I’m not sure that is going to happen.
Randy Pausch
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.
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Pausch's Carnegie Mellon faculty homepage, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, 2008
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More from Christy Turlington Burns
View profile →My father’s death before my marriage and motherhood.
The fact that at least 300,000 women die every year from pregnancy and childbirth-related issues that are largely preventable.
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”.
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.
The birth of my daughter.
I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.
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