Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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.
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗
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Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
Robert De Niro
Actor
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
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View profile →Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?
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