Audra McDonald
Singer and actor
Balloons. I have a big phobia of balloons. Big.
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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.
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗
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That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
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In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
Balancing my inner and outer life.
Arrogance and entitlement.
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