Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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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 can be pedantic at times.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
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I’m terribly impatient.
Bonnie Raitt
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When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
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View profile →The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Being able to share a confidence.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
The inability to listen.
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