Maya Jama
British television and radio presenter
I can be properly stubborn sometimes – but that’s me being a classic Leo.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Impatience and vanity.
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Bruce Dickinson
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Procrastination.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
My tendency to skip meals.
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Arrogance and narcissism.
Warm and embracing.
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
Not being a professional footballer.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
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