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As someone who did his best.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 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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View all 213 →I’ve not always been great friend material. I’ve tried to get better at that, so to be remembered as reliable by a few would be great.
Andy Serkis
English actor
Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
As the world’s oldest living teenager.
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
American artist and activist
For the service I gave to the black folk.
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View profile →To my brother, because I wish I’d been there for him more.
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
Being nominated for an award and not winning – there have been a couple.
A 1956 Selmer silver alto saxophone.
I am not a great crier.
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