Maureen O'Hara
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Living in the Caribbean during the 60s and 70s with such lovely people.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
In the one photo I’ve seen where my smile looks convincing – I’m four years old, so I’m guessing then. But I just won a Bafta and that felt amazing, too. So, roughly every 40 years.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
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David Shrigley
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Walking the dog on a beach in Dorset with my wife.
Alison Goldfrapp
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Most recently, when I was tobogganing in Italy.
Patti Smith
Musician, poet and photographer
Tramping through the woods in South Jersey in 1957 with my dog Bambi.
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View profile →A reviewer once called me “artistically bankrupt”, and it doesn’t feel like reviews can get much worse than that.
I’ve never been upgraded on a plane.
I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.
When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
Self-destruction.
A comedy gig at an army barracks for thousands of angry, horny squaddies just back from six months in the desert. I was on straight after the stripper.
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