American singer-songwriter
She was a fun, silly girl who wrote positive songs that helped others – and she was a good mama.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2024
One question · 6 of 231 answers to it
What would you like to be remembered for?
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.
American actress and politician
As a citizen, a person involved in my community.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2017
British actress and activist
Maybe a skilful bronze face somewhere. Or a small but helpful scholarship for a drama student or singer to study singing.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2018
British singer
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2021
As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2024
English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer
Simply as a man who put a smile on the face of everyone he met.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2020
Answers marked Recorded were said elsewhere and are quoted with the publication and date they came from. Those people have not joined — nobody here answers on anyone else's behalf.
What would you like to leave your children?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Film critic
What I expect to happen is that my body will fail, my mind will cease to function and that will be that. My genes will not live on, because I have had no children.
Recorded · Salon · 2011
The best possible understanding of who they are and where they came from.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2024
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005
For them, home is the world. For them, every human being is just one member of that large human family you have. ... if we have more children like mine, in my view, we will not have war.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2006
When were you happiest?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
American actress and author
Watching my two baby dogs play. They are rat terriers, rescue dogs.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2017
Scottish actor
The birth of my first child, July 4 2002.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2008
Has knowing that you will die changed how you live?
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
Like at the end of my life, when I can tell that I don’t have long to live, I want to be able to look back and go like, “Wow, I saw the world from many points of view.
Recorded · Curated Questions · 2024
Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter
I think the notion of a bucket list is kind of wrong, actually. If you want to do something, go and do it. Don't put it on a list and think, I want to do this before I die.
Recorded · AARP · 2025
Songwriter and musician
I just thought right away that I wanted to work. ... This is a good job. It's been a good job. Work is the most effective drug there can possibly be. ...
Recorded · The New York Times Magazine · 2003
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You are dealt a few questions at a time and answer the ones you want to. What you write gets a permanent address and keeps it. Rewrite it whenever you like and say why — the new version goes up beside the old one rather than over it, so changing your mind reads as thinking rather than as a reversal.
You write before you read. Other members' answers to a question stay shut until you have answered it or passed on it, because reading first changes what you would have said. Passing is free and it is permanent.
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