Dependency. Fascism.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
What is your greatest fear?
Question
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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.
That I might have to do a normal job.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
Father John Misty
American musician
Getting thrown down a well.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗
James Norton
English actor
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗
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View profile →Realising that success wasn't going to keep me happy all my life.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
My microphone cost me six grand.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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