Edwina Currie
Former British politician, broadcaster and writer
I am happy now.
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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.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
Well, when in 1994 he was elected and I was given the privilege of introducing him to South Africa as our new president and to the world, I sort of whispered to God and said, “God, I don’t really mind now. I mean, if I die now, it would be almost the perfect moment.
Marianne Faithfull
English singer and actress
When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
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As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
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Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Standing up while eating.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
That I’ll die worrying.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
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