Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
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.
Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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Chris Froome
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David Kinjah, my old coach and mentor in Kenya.
Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
Kate Nash
British musician
My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
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I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
Realising that success wasn't going to keep me happy all my life.
That I might have to do a normal job.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
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