Lionel Shriver
American author
As not having been tiresome.
What would you like to be remembered for?
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Identity & self
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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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.
As an aggressive bugger.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 April 2018 source ↗
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Billy Ocean
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As somebody who tried.
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As someone who brought people together through music.
As someone who added to a situation rather than took away from it.
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To learn to relax and enjoy it.
Perfume for the wife, and the Jaguars. They were always secondhand. I have had every kind except the E-Type.
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate how proud she was of me being deputy prime minister. She ended up doing more press than me, and I was too sensitive and reacted.
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