David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
What is your greatest fear?
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2021 source ↗
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Christopher Hitchens
Essayist, critic and journalist
Instead, I am badly oppressed by a gnawing sense of waste. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read—if not indeed write—the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? But I understand this sort of non-thinking for what it is: sentimentality and self-pity.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
The death of my loved ones.
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View profile →Compassion. Wisdom. Wit. The delicate balance of knowing when I need tough love and when I need support. Plus, call me crazy, but I’m also partial to friends who don’t surreptitiously record our calls.
How my PTSD manifests—it feels like being the only ballerina in the company saddled with a 100-pound backpack and told to go out onstage and still be graceful.
My mom, for her unflappable ability to be sanguine (though she sometimes dips into Pollyanna territory).
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