Willem Dafoe
Actor
Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
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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.
A willingness to go with my gut feeling, rather than wait a day and contemplate other options.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗
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Fay Ripley
English actress, television presenter, cookbook author
Being judgmental.
Self-criticism.
Being overly critical.
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View profile →Sitting in a living room with my sister, Pat Thaler, and her seven grandchildren and just talking with them. They range in age from 9 to 21 years old.
I would like to be more accepting of the faults of others.
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
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