Lleyton Hewitt
Australian professional tennis player
Greg Norman, for the way he handles winning and losing.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Death & what remains
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.
My wife. She is the most beautiful person I know in every way and has an endless energy for other people that a vinegary old misanthrope like myself can only marvel at.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2011 source ↗
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Julia Stiles
American actress
People I went to school with who have careers as doctors and teachers.
My wife, Grace.
Suzi Quatro
American-British rock musician
My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
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View profile →Right now. It's a beautiful thing to find yourself "the wrong side of 40" and more in love with life than ever. I never tell people this publicly as they wrongly assume the only valid creative state is that of the cliche of the tubercular, tortured artist coughing up blood in his garret.
Drinking green tea with my wife and listening to Eno’s ‘Music For Airports’.
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