Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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.
Being found out.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗
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Eleanor Tomlinson
English actress
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
Dying, because I am so happy now.
Not waking up in the morning.
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