Robert De Niro
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I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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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 judgmental.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2025 source ↗
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I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
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Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.
Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Playing the Cowardly Lion in our fourth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. Thank you, Mr. Riccobono.
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