Rosie Jones
British comedian and actress
Not being liked.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
Talking too much.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
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Kevin Rowland
British singer
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Marina Abramović
Performance artist
To be eaten by a shark.
Michael Flatley
American step dancer
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
More from Bob Schieffer
View profile →Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Failure to be on time.
Absentmindedness.
When I finished writing a book.
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