Olivia de Havilland
Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
Nelson Mandela.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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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.
Johnny Mathis - he is so perfect.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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Rose Tremain
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Meryl Streep. For all her truthful and perfected offerings that have taken me to an “elsewhere”, in which my mind could feel both soothed and stimulated.
Ethan Hawke
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Mike Leigh: his work is important.
Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
Greta Thunberg. For setting an example and fighting hatred with humour.
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Just thinking about unsafe sex.
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A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
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