Philippa Perry
Psychotherapist and author
I’m closer today than I was yesterday.
How close have you come to death?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Daily life
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Craft & work
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What does love feel like?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In dreams, but that’s about it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗
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Dan Stevens
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Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
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I held my mother’s hand as she passed away.
Olivia Williams
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Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.
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Yes. Today has been really stressful. We had a workout this morning. It went okay. And then just that five and a half hour wait or something. I was just shaking, could barely nap. I've just never felt like this going into a competition before. And I tried to go out here and have fun. And warm up in the back went a little bit better. But then once I came out here, I was like, "No, mental is not there. So I just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself."
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Post-competition press conference, Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo Olympics, Rev, 27 July 2021
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My parents: they raised me to be the best I can be.
Literally can not tell up from down. It's the craziest feeling ever. Not having an inch of control over your body. What's even scarier is since I have no idea where I am in the air, I also have NO idea how I am going to land. Or what I am going to land on. Head/hands/feet back…
Picking up dog poop at home: my sister and I used to take turns.
When you put others before yourself, and you’d do anything for them.
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