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I am unable to use scissors.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗
The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
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Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
Olly Alexander
English singer and actor
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Adrian Dunbar
Irish actor
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
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The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
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Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
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