David Guetta
French DJ
People worship music artists or actors but I have a lot of admiration for doctors, people who save lives.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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How close have you come to death?
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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 mother. Any child of a single parent, if they are in a relationship when they become a parent, thinks, “How the hell did you do it alone?”
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
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Suzi Quatro
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My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
Jonnie Peacock
British athlete
David Beckham. He was my idol growing up and I met him in 2000, just before the England game against Romania.
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It’s a toss-up between organising a new filing system at Hammersmith & Fulham social services and relying on tips in the least popular restaurant in London to get through drama school.
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
Finding your place.
I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.
Last week I saw a moorhen feeding her chicks, and became overwhelmed by the miracle of parenthood and maternal sacrifice. And I hadn’t even been drinking.
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