Ken Loach
English retired filmmaker
Tony Benn, for moving to the left throughout his life rather than to the right.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?
Craft & work
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What most recently made you cry?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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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.
His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar.
I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.
Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 3 February 2017 source ↗
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John Simpson
English journalist
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
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View profile →You now have to address the fact that we might live in so-called wealthy countries at the expense of people who live in poor countries. Our wealth is maybe dependent on somebody else from the poverty side of the equation, suffering on our behalf.
During my Queensland childhood, on the days when I avoided the chlorine-infused shower gauntlet and being corralled into the deep end of the school pool.
In the series I’ve got massive slabs of dialogue so I had to understand the scientific principles involved and then fake it to credibility.
When Adèle walked down the road at the end of the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
Being alone in a room with a tiger: a recurring dream, never reality, fortunately.
My own snoring.
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