Anyone who can laugh at themselves.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Jimmy Carter. Michelle Obama. Barack Obama. Geoffrey Canada. Tank Man. Marian Wright Edelman. Madeleine Albright. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Norman Lear. Malala Yousafzai. Beyoncé Knowles.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗
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Gloria Steinem, because her whole life has been spent trying to help people.
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The artist Magda Archer [his wife].
Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife, because she’s a legend.
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Any recent gathering with friends and family; yesterday, running by the ocean; anytime, solving a problem or creating something. Right now, in bed with news and popcorn.
Incapacitation.
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