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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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Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
As somebody who was hardworking, kind and nice.
Adwoa Aboah
British fashion model
For persevering, and being a good role model.
Simone Biles
United States artistic gymnast
As a confident, inspirational and very bubbly person.
Randy Pausch
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.
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Pausch's Carnegie Mellon faculty homepage, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, 2008
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More from Julian Sands
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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.
David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
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