Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
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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.
My lips are sealed.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗
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Robert Glenister
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Premature demise.
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
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It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.
My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!
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