You reach a certain point in life and suddenly know a lot of dead people, and I’ve noticed you don’t stop getting to know people who are dead. Those relationships continue and I like that.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Other people get sad.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
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View all 51 →I have lots of beliefs about that, but that will have to wait for another interview.
I really hope there is a big pearly gate.
I think we go back into the earth.
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Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
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Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
A 28ft motorboat, which sat in the water for two years because I was so busy working.
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
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