Felicity Jones
British actress
Not enough food in the fridge.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Never working again.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗
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Sally Mann
Photographer
The loss of a child.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
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My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.
To still be working.
Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.
I’m getting closer all the time.
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
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