Nuclear holocaust.
What is your greatest fear?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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 it all goes away and never comes back.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2015 source ↗
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John Grisham
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Having a stroke.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
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Probably being granted all-access to a Disney theme park with my husband, David, and a group of close friends—and just us—while we wandered and drank tropical tiki drinks. No judgment, no lines, no bad weather, and no hangovers. Oh, and our twins would be there too, but only when they’re happy and meltdown-free. I guess the same would go for David.
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