Impulsivity. We end up in strange places, like right now – I am in the Middle East.
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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.
I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
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A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
Can I have more than three? Creative, kind, a grafter, engaging, loyal, fun and generous.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
I would have been better with money.
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