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Book: Elders Interviews with Andrew Denton Edited by Fiona Harari Examples of unique interview questions: Dame Elizabeth Murdoch When you look into the mirror, what do you see? I hardly ever look at myself, its so displeasing. I forget I’m looking old but I do, and so I don’t look often. Inside what do you see? I’m not conscious of my age at all. It’s extraordinary. Your mind and outlook is exactly the same, it never changes. Are there assumptions that people make about you because they think you’re old? Yes they think I’m unable to do this or that and they marvel when I appear. I’m out and about a lot and they seem to be quite surprised that I seem to manage this. They don’t realise that I still have the capacity to enjoy life. After one hundred years on the planet, is it a beautiful world? Are you optimistic? I’m an incurable optimist. I think life wouldn’t be worth living if you were pessimistic. Sir David Attenborough Home environment observation You have a huge collection of classical music. Why does music mean so much to you? It’s a mystery isn’t it. I often think about it as a biologist. I once made a program about music and animals. You can produce a definition for music, which includes other species apart from yourself that make music: whales, birds or gibbons.