I can’t deal with any level of stress.
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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.
Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2016 source ↗
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My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
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View profile →Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 P.M., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand.
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
That they won’t let me hide.
Malala Yousafzai, Martina Navratilova, Misty Copeland, and Hillary Clinton.
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