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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.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
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Shirley Manson
Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
Jane Asher
English actress and author
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
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The inability to listen.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Being able to share a confidence.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
I can be pedantic at times.
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