I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
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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.
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The death of my loved ones.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗
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View all 255 →Falling onstage…or anywhere.
Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
Dependency. Fascism.
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View profile →Pedro Almodóvar, for being loyal to his personality as an artist against all the odds.
My pathological incapacity to say no.
The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
I don’t like fake people, impostors.
The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.
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