Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
What is your greatest fear?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
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Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
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Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
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