Conflict aversion.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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View all 242 →Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗
Felicity Jones
British actress
Trying to do a million things at once.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
My tendency to be avoidant.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
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View profile →Absolutely nothing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
“You’re a wonderful musician but a terrible friend.” It was Daniel Barenboim, the famous conductor, because I didn’t have time in the calendar to work with him.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
Unfriendliness.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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