Adrian Dunbar
Irish actor
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
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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.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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Carl Barât
English musician
Fear and all of its consequences.
I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
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Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Never picking up the check.
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
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