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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.
Food in a sink drain.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2025 source ↗
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Chaka Khan
American singer
I am not afraid.
Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
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Lying. Let’s not call it “untruthful.” Or “factually inaccurate.” I don’t even call it bullshit, because I like bulls. And bulls need to shit. So you can’t hold that against them. Let’s call it what it is: lying.
They want nothing but friendship.
My wife – for her intelligence, talent, ability to survive this business and be such a fantastic mother to our two kids. (Of course, I have to say that, because she’s sitting right here.)
I can’t stand the way my voice will crack if I’m making a speech. I hate public speaking and the emotion it dredges up.
A family dinner. Candlelight. Lots of laughs.
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