Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
Not actualising my full potential.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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 crippling accident.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗
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Edward Enninful
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When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
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I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
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Not enough food in the fridge.
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