Not being loved.
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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.
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗
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Daryl McCormack
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Not actualising my full potential.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.
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As an optimist.
To do the very best you can and then let it go.
At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.
“You’ll never do well as an actor unless you change your name.” I’m not going to say who.
Still to come, I think.
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