Complacent stupidity.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That they think they know it all.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
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View all 196 →Racism and bigotry.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗
People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗
Passive aggression.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗
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Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
It makes you feel like you want to live.What is the worst job you’ve ever done? Doing the audiobook of the first book. It was hard. I couldn’t do that again.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
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