I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
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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.
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
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