Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
At the moment, Ukraine’s president.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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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.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
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John Waters
American filmmaker
Johnny Mathis - he is so perfect.
Chlöe Swarbrick who is co-leader of the New Zealand Greens. She’s demonstrating the bold leadership that I look to do every single day.
Julien Macdonald
Welsh fashion designer
Karl Lagerfeld.
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When I heard John Noakes had died.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
I’d have made more of my education.
I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
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