Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
He came, he laughed, he left.
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What is the book you have given most as a gift, and why?
Taste & recommendation
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What is your favourite side project?
Craft & work
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What are you most proud of?
Identity & self
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What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?
Daily life
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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?
Craft & work
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How does a new work begin for you?
Craft & work
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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.
It will be great if the plays stay funny.
Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 27 August 2011 source ↗
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Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
It would be nice if my books were valued greatly, even after my death.
Margaret Atwood
Novelist, poet and critic
By members of a human race who have managed to avoid annihilating their entire species and can thus still do some reading, and remembering.
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I love making jam. Plum is best.
The lecture that I’m proudest of [reprinted in the book as “In the Oxford Madrasa”] is the one that I gave in 2016 about conservatism being in a hopeless philosophical mess.
I get to airports ridiculously early. It’s an uncontrollable urge.
One day you write nothing, the next you write eight pages. It’s not in your hands.
Just circumstance. I was running a small theatre group and somebody didn’t deliver a play.
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