Meg Rosoff
American novelist
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
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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.
Greg Norman, for the way he handles winning and losing.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2016 source ↗
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Stephen Fry
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The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
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My kids wrote a song for me, recorded it on to a CD and it was played before my last Australian Open. I had no idea until I heard it live on TV.
When my kids were born.
To move like I did in my early 20s. I’ve had knee and hip surgery, and my toe joint fused since.
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