I most admire Steve Sondheim, who is not alive anymore. But his words and music keep him alive.
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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.
Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2019 source ↗
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Kellie Maloney
Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Kate Nash
British musician
My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
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I look at my nephew, who is five years old and in a perpetual state of bliss; I imagine that’s what I was like when I was five. That’s not to say I am unhappy now; I was on top of the world walking through a park to work this morning.
To anyone I’ve unintentionally hurt or upset.
That things didn’t get better.
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