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, 3 July 2021 source ↗
Jason Queally, a former teammate. He is older than me and was Olympic champion in Sydney. The way he mentored me, even though he knew I would be a rival, was amazing.
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
My mother, Mary Davidson, for having me at 16 – a child herself – and raising me with very little.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
My body of work and maybe the fact that I got famous young and I am still here and never ended up in a jail cell.
When I was 24 or 25, I bought a Warhol canvas. It was a lot of money to throw down on a little painting, but I’ve always loved art.
In the 90s. I am pretty happy now, but back then I didn’t have the heavier things that life brings as you get older.
Stephen Graham, Dolly Parton, Meera Syal, Julian Sands, Joseph Fiennes, Hayley Squires
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