Sam Neill
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My brother, Michael. He is an academic and has devoted his life to scholarship; my life seems trivial by comparison. Bastard.
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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.
Michelle Obama.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2022 source ↗
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
British screenwriter, novelist and actor
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David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
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Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
The birth of my children.
Seeing my family thrive and being underwater.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
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