Neil Patrick Harris
Actor
That it all goes away and never comes back.
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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.
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
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Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
Going back to addiction.
Losing my virginity.
Food in a sink drain.
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View profile →My trust in other people. I am rigorously honest.
I wanted to be in the army or a spy in the intelligence service.
My children obviously, but also my work.
Gossip and backstabbing.
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.
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