John Waters
American filmmaker
Losing my mind and not knowing it.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
To overcook that plate of fettuccine.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗
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Mike Wallace
American journalist
I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.
Hugh Grant
Actor
The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
Not having the people I love around me.
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In the hospital when my children were born.
I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.
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