Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2020 source ↗
My parents for the roots; my old parish priest, Father Arthur Barrow, for the fire and the reason; Richard Curtis for the drive and humanity; and, for living in the public eye with principles, George Clooney.
All the people I work with, people like Anna Wintour and Bruce Weber.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
Madonna, she is a trailblazer. She changed the face of pop music for women. She did so much for the Aids movement, encouraging people to vote and the voices of LGBTQIA+ people. Fashion icon, music icon – she deserves all the credit.
As an interesting, amusing father by my children.
Being exquisitely alive.
A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
Samuel West, Karamo Brown, Rory Kinnear, Julia Stiles, Alice Eve, John Bishop
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