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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗
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.
Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I’ve met in terms of charisma and achievement.
My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
My wife (Borat voice).
Not always standing up for myself enough.
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Abi Morgan, Angus Deayton, Ann Patchett, Anne Enright, Armistead Maupin, Bill Bryson
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