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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2017 source ↗
A friend named Paul Hill [one of the Guildford Four] spent 15 years in prison doing time for crimes he did not commit. We communicate most days. I admire the hell out of him.
My mom. She has been a fashion designer and run a catering business.
Harriet Harman. I know how hard it is to do what she’s doing.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
To anyone I’ve worked with between 5.30am and 8.30am. I am not a morning person.
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
Ten years ago I bought a painting. I lived with it for a year before realising I didn’t like it at all. So it’s on my wall, mocking me daily.
Like you are standing with an army.
As I get older, I get happier.
Carrie Fisher, John Malkovich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Hayley Atwell, Olly Alexander, Harriet Walter
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