Dominic Cooper
English actor
I am pretty chirpy at the moment.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2011 source ↗
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
Bill Bryson
American-British author
When I had my catheter taken out, thanks for asking.
January 15, 1991. Walking up Congress Avenue in Austin, with thousands of others, to see Mom sworn in as governor of Texas.
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I’d like to see all my friends. I would have my breakfast and then I would go to Ireland and see my friends – Frank McGuinness, Penny and Desmond Guinness…all those people. I would have lunch in the castle with Penny and Desmond and maybe some other people, then in the afternoon I would go to New York and do the same thing.
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