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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
Muhammad Ali. I never liked him boxing; offstage, he was an archangel.
Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
Murray Perahia, because he is a great pianist, and temporarily lost the use of one hand, which prevented him from playing. His courage was beyond description.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Jaime Winstone, Stephen Dorff, Archie Panjabi, Cybill Shepherd, Sienna Miller
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