That I can’t write.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Running out of Molecule cologne.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗
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Serena Williams
United States professional tennis player, 1995–2022
I don’t think about my greatest fear.
I’m afraid of the dark.
Audra McDonald
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Balloons. I have a big phobia of balloons. Big.
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My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
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Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
A gig in Chatham.
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