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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2017 source ↗
John Wooden, when he was the number one basketball coach in the world. He just said to the bottom five players, “You don't get to play. You're sparring partners.” The top seven did all the playing.
Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.
Just look at a Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela, and you’ll see that one of the outstanding characteristics of each one of these is how they have poured themselves out prodigally on behalf of others, of their being so utterly selfless.
Maggie, my wife – for putting up with me.
I am pretty chirpy at the moment.
Just remembered will do.
Not playing Freddie Mercury.
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
My Austin Healey.
A librarian. Or a racing driver for Ferrari F1.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Jaime Winstone, Stephen Dorff, Archie Panjabi, Cybill Shepherd, Sienna Miller
Search the directory for somebody in particular.