Marina Abramović
Performance artist
My difficulty to forgive.
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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.
Too controlling about silly things like timings or not having toxic cleaning products in the house.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗
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Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
I’d rather name one for someone else. I’m egomaniacal.
Maxi-multitasking.
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When it’s just us as a family on our island hideaway in Wales.
Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.
Becoming a father.
Holding the hand of some random lady at an airport who I mistook for my wife, Shara.
He knew where life was to be found.
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