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, 31 March 2012 source ↗
His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar. I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
I don't dwell on disappointments.
Whenever I'm with my mum and brother. We have family dinners every Sunday – it's become quite the tradition.
Jaime Winstone, Geoffrey Rush, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Martin Freeman, Angus Deayton, Emilia Fox
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