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As an interesting, amusing father by my children.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2020 source ↗
The question
How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
Tom Allen
British comedian
The greatest athlete we never knew we had.
Sara Cox
English broadcaster
For making people’s journeys on the M6 a bit easier.
I couldn’t care less.
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Being exquisitely alive.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
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.
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