Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
A world without music.
What is your greatest fear?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗
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Christopher Hitchens
Essayist, critic and journalist
Instead, I am badly oppressed by a gnawing sense of waste. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read—if not indeed write—the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? But I understand this sort of non-thinking for what it is: sentimentality and self-pity.
Losing track (see above).
Being homeless.
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View profile →Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.
Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.
Today’s children and young people – we’ve let them down by not doing more to prevent the nature and climate crisis, and left them such a huge responsibility.
For making a difference.
A holiday job as a chambermaid at the Scratchwood Travelodge on the M1. The state some people leave their rooms in was a revelation.
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