Ed Harris
American actor and director
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What are you most proud of?
Identity & self
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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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.
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
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Nick Grimshaw
English television and radio presenter
My mum. I just got back off holiday with her and we had the most fun. She’s game for whatever.
Leontyne Price gives me life. She broke racial barriers with inimitable poise, grace, and excellence, as well as unbelievable focus and vision.
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
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It was such a beautiful summer’s night and I had pink hair and my band was doing really well and my mum was there, my mum was still alive. It was very magical for me and to get the honour of my city, to be blessed by their respect, it was delicious.
Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
My dog’s trust in me.
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