Erin O'Connor
English model
Annie Lennox - she's a private woman with integrity.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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.
Oprah Winfrey, as Maya Angelou and Tina Turner are no longer with us. These women are Afro-American queens who, despite growing up in the racist south experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse, rose to the top of their professions and are an inspiration to women everywhere.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
Those who put others first.
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View profile →My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
Loving, sincere, honest.
To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
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