Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
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Originally asked
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.
Picking my nose.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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Climbing in Tibet, surfing in Australia and a moment ago by a courgette cutter as I dithered over one of these questions.
Picking their nose and eating it.
Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
That fear becomes too great.
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