Impatience and being bossy.
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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.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
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Guy Pearce
Australian actor
My fear of confrontation.
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
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A world where greed rules.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
My son. He is a teenager.
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