Handing out the tequilas.
What would you like to be remembered for?
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
Taste & recommendation
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As Tilda Swinton in a fat suit.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
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Carlos Acosta
Cuban ballet dancer
As someone who made a difference.
Ruth Jones
Welsh actress, producer, and writer
As an accomplished dancer and tennis player, because I do neither, so my loved ones would be very confused.
Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
More from Siobhán McSweeney
View profile →Physically, falling off my bike two years ago. Emotionally, when my mother died when I was 27.
On stage. Always on stage. God that’s depressing, isn’t it?
Politics. And casting directors.
A better knee and better lungs.
Loving, odd, playful. Jeepers, I’ve described myself like a damaged rescue puppy.
I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
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