Mike Wallace
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Self-absorption.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.
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Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013
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Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
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Knowing they are there for you.
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Deborah Divine.
Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
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