Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
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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.
Never working again.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗
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Vick Hope
British television and radio presenter
When I was growing up, I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger fear to contend with on a day‑to-day basis. It hasn’t proved to be a bother yet, but there’s still time.
My children dying before me.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
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To still be working.
Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
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