Andrew O’Hagan: How would you describe what love feels like to you? — FLAPSS

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How would you describe what love feels like to you?

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Andrew O’Hagan

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Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗

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Pure happiness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

Johanna Konta British tennis player

Like when you get the giggles in a room full of people where you should be quiet.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗

Hayley Squires English actress and playwright

Essential, like oxygen.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗

Dan Stevens English actor

Like somebody’s painted the world a different colour.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 November 2017 source ↗

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The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.

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Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.

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Question As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? Identity & self

Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.

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For world capitalism to grind to a halt.

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I can’t say it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As a good friend.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗

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