Hans Zimmer
Film composer
To place faith over facts.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
Taste & recommendation
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
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Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
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When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
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