David Winner Revealed
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. hope fully it's a work in pro gress
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. I haven't got one, but I do have a favourite joke: "Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play"
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. At the end of Buket Alakus's beautiful film 'Eine andere Liga' she stops people in the street and asks them to define football's offside rule. No-one does it very well until someone says: "It's like love. It's really hard to explain but you know it when you see it"
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. death / suffering of loved ones
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. "There's no place like Rome", Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (often misquoted)
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. Emanuel Ringelblum
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. My Dad (Nelson Mandela is OK too)
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. "like" (as in "it's like, totally, like, you know, like..."etc
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. Holland losing the 1974 world cup final. I never got over it. Really
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. to see the field as Cruyff does
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. I'm just getting going. One day I might win the Ballon d'Or
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. indecision, definitely
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. My elephantine memory (big, slow-moving, grey, endangered)
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. The new saxophone player with Sweet Sue's Society Syncopators
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. for a person writing about food I'm a really lousy cook
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Josey Wales
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Count Orlock
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. It would be a sunny day in June, and I'd be matey enough with the heir presumptive to say: "Hey Franz, give Sarajevo a miss". And he'd take my advice.
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. Reality TV. It is the work of Satan
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. watching movies
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. time traveller
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. I like people who are warm, intelligent and funny
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. Fresh mozzarella di bufala from Campania
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. 'I Am The Walrus', 'Werewolves of London', 'Ma il cielo e sempre piu blu', 'Gimme Shelter', Keith Jarrett's 'Koln Concert' (he vocalises throughout so I'm having it as a song)
