Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
When were you happiest?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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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.
Lots of times, mostly all connected to Gordon and my children.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 March 2011 source ↗
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Jesse Jackson
American minister, activist and politician
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
Matthew Bourne
British choreographer
Can't quantify – I am often happy.
Maggie O'Farrell
Irish-British novelist
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
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