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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
Happiness is planting the vegetables, sleeping with my girlfriend, running, doing my work, sitting by the fire with a book and a glass of wine... I need a reason to be unhappy, but do not need one to be quietly cheerful.
On stage. Always on stage. God that’s depressing, isn’t it?
When my son, Jimmy, was two and I was just pottering about with him.
Last night, having dinner with the family round the kitchen table.
Any type of indecision.
I’m a very fearless person.
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Indecision and wishy-washiness.
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups.
Paul Smith, Keith McNally, Terence Conran, Tamara Mellon, Katharine Hamnett, Douglas Stuart
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