Frogs and public speaking.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2011 source ↗
The question
What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
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Margaret Atwood
Novelist, poet and critic
That human beings will follow their stupid and greedy side, rather than their smart side, and go down the plughole. We’re circling the rim.
Alessia Cara
Canadian singer-songwriter
That’s a good way of looking at it. It’s me talking to myself, reminiscing on childhood and things I was told as a kid. Just wanting to stay a certain age and not have to grow up—that’s something I’ve always been afraid of.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.
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I'm scared of the dark.
At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be and I said fashion journalist, so writing for Vogue has provided me with the opportunity to fulfil a dream.
I love curating things in general. I love writing. It might actually be the solution to my problem, my dilemma that I don't know what to do. It's because I like to do everything. I like to appease that nature of wanting to dabble in things.
I think you have to be open to failure. As a society, we’re now far too judgy, and we just don’t let people make mistakes.
I won't allow people's shit limit what I do.
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