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.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗
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Alison Steadman
British actress
That we will drown in plastic waste.
Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.
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A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
To place faith over facts.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
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