Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Running out of options.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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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.
Premature demise.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗
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View all 255 →My belief that saying it makes it happen.
That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.
Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
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View profile →That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
Lack of confidence.
That I’m still here.
The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.
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