Joseph Fiennes
English actor
Picking my nose.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
At this time in my life, I quite like myself but, for a large portion of my life, I deplored being shy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
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View all 243 →Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
Self-centredness.
Oversensitivity.
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Oprah Winfrey, as Maya Angelou and Tina Turner are no longer with us. These women are Afro-American queens who, despite growing up in the racist south experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse, rose to the top of their professions and are an inspiration to women everywhere.
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
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