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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗
Flying over the Australian outback in a jet, looking down at the incredible orange scenery, the uninhabited hills and gullies, listening to Tchaikovsky on my headphones and drinking champagne with a cigarette in my hand. It was 1984, I'd been to the Adelaide Book Festival and was going back to my husband and my children.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
I am relieved to say that I find it hard to answer such a question, because if I could it would suggest that my life has become dreary and empty.
When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
Being at peace with God.
To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
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