David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I still say yes to too many things.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗
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When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.
Michael Flatley
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I don’t give myself that much thought.
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View profile →My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
A fighter pilot.
I genuinely can’t remember crying.
Independent, curious and funny.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
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