Peter Sarsgaard: What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?

The question

What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Peter Sarsgaard

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

It would improve the quality of all of our lives if we just got rid of all unessential vehicles in New York City.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

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Charles Collingwood

If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗

Bobby Gillespie Singer and songwriter

I have a nice life but if everybody else had a better quality of life, too, Britain would be a nicer place.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 May 2021 source ↗

Ardal O'Hanlon Irish comedian and actor

Sharper knives.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗

Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed. To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

Recorded Essay first published in the Strand Magazine in 1921–22 and collected in Amid These Storms, 1932, Winston S. Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, Project Gutenberg Canada, 1932 source ↗