Mike Skinner
English rapper
That I might have to do a normal job.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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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.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
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View all 255 →Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2020 source ↗
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗
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View profile →A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
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