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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗
My distractibility, diminishing memory, and capacity for sustained concentration. My English master once said I had the brain of a butterfly. I feel that 40 years later, I’ve evolved into Dory from Finding Nemo.
Intermittent laziness.
I still say yes to too many things.
Maxi-multitasking.
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?
Cybill Shepherd, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Matthew Modine, Alison Steadman, Pauline McLynn, Julie Andrews
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