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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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗
Just look at a Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela, and you’ll see that one of the outstanding characteristics of each one of these is how they have poured themselves out prodigally on behalf of others, of their being so utterly selfless.
Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
Greta Thunberg.
I look up to people such as Andre Agassi who use their fame as a pedestal for causes. He was great to me early on in my career.
There are no more interviews.
People finding out my greatest fear.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
Inability to listen.
Wondering why I can’t sleep.
My lack of foreign language skills.
Mary Berry, Robert Carlyle, Daniel Clowes, Elisabeth Moss, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Zoë Wanamaker
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