Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Whose work makes you jealous?
Craft & work
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Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Relationships
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What is the most rewarding part of being a parent?
Relationships
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What does the first sixty minutes of your day look like?
Daily life
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
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I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.
Jasper Rees, Q&A, The Arts Desk, 10 October 2009 source ↗
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John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
My tendency to skip meals.
Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
I’ve learned to give myself a break. Everyone should.
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I’ve become fonder and fonder of Brian Friel and Faith Healer has sort of become my favourite play.
I was jealous as hell.
Has to be the poet Harry Guest.
I’m much much closer to my children than my father was to me, and I would hope that the quality of love I’ve given them is different from the quality my father gave me.
Every morning, Monday to Friday, I get up at 7am and make my wife breakfast in bed.
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