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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗
I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.
This morning in bed.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
Now, in this moment, in this city.
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
Although I have a driving licence, I don't drive – I am very bad at it.
Camille Paglia, Chris Packham, Richard Feynman, Scott Mills, Brett Anderson, Elaine Paige
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