Marina Abramović
Performance artist
To be eaten by a shark.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What does love feel like?
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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.
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
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Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗
Alison Steadman
British actress
That we will drown in plastic waste.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗
Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗
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View profile →My trust in other people. I am rigorously honest.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
Gossip and backstabbing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
I wanted to be in the army or a spy in the intelligence service.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
As a force for good and a champion of the underdog.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
Great. It feels wonderful – like a firework going off in your stomach.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
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