The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I hope that’s yet to come. My Oscar? That was a combination of Holly Hunter being an amazing actress, Jane being an extraordinary director and me being in the right place at the right time. I had no idea what I was doing. It’s given me this amazing life, but it’s not the highlight of my career.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2019 source ↗
That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.
Paying my rent and being able to support my family from making music.
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
I don’t have a favourite song, but I will definitely give it some thought, so no one’s arguing about it when I die.
I am really loving the badass co-captain of the US soccer team, Megan Rapinoe. She is exceptionally hard-working and talented, and stands up for what she believes.
If it took less than 14 hours to fly to New Zealand, that would be great. A super-duper-fast plane would be cool.
I already had a career when I was growing up.
My husband and I own some art, but we are not huge spenders.
I don’t think there’s a single moment. Every day that you wake up and your family is healthy and OK is a daily gratitude and happiness for me.
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