Nicola Walker
British actress
My father, because he’s never run away from anything.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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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.
Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2022 source ↗
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Monica Ali
British writer, novelist
Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.
My Auntie Jane. She took me in, aged 10, and, after my mother died, healed my broken heart by filling our dining room with food and people. Still cooking at the grand old age of 89. My icon.
Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
Aretha Franklin. I mean, she’s Aretha! That says it all.
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I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
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