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, April 2017 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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗
The comedian Norm Macdonald. He’s the funniest man in the world, but so committed to being funny, he’s continually screwing up his career.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2016 source ↗
It's a fool's errand to waste time admiring anybody.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2012 source ↗
My grandmother, Marianne Karlsson.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2014 source ↗
Having no patience.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2003 source ↗
Trying too hard to be funny.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Abi Morgan, Adam Clayton, Adeel Akhtar, Adwoa Aboah, Alfre Woodard, Alice Eve
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