What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Marina Abramović said elsewhere, not written here
To be eaten by a shark.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗

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Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

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Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
Recorded University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen source ↗

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