Serena Williams
United States professional tennis player, 1995–2022
I don’t think about my greatest fear.
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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.
The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗
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Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
Running out of Molecule cologne.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
English actor
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
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View profile →Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
I am unable to use scissors.
Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
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