Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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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.
Standing up while eating.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
English snooker player
I’ve got no patience.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
Bad timekeeping.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2024 source ↗
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View profile →They take my calls.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
That I’ll die worrying.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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