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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.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Not doing the above.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
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I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
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