Heights, and not getting along with people.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I fear nothing, except for flying.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2016 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
James Norton
English actor
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
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View profile →Jay Z. He’s a mogul. He’s a Sagittarius like me. I love his business moves.
People who do not love. If you are not loving, you are not living. Why wouldn’t you love? What’s the problem?
Health, life, everything around me on a daily basis, being grateful for life—every day is a blessing.
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