Regrets. That’s no way to live.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗
What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Nuclear holocaust.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗
I can’t say it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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View profile →Spending time with my family—with no phone, no fax, and no meetings.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2003 source ↗
People who speak with heavy American accents. I can barely understand them. No, seriously, dishonesty.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗
I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2003 source ↗
My mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and my father-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who founded Job Corps and was the first director of the Peace Corps.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗
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