My lack of foreign language skills.
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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.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
Modesty and humility.
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Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
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.
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