Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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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.
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗
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Olivia de Havilland
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The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
John Simm
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Outliving my kids – and rats.
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Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
On a plane, watching a movie.
My 13-year-old self, for all the resentment.
A Rose Wylie painting.
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
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