Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Craft & work
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How does a new work begin for you?
Craft & work
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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?
Craft & work
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How do you know when a piece of work is finished?
Craft & work
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What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?
Daily life
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.
I’m always afraid of false certainty about things
Hope Reese, interview, Longreads, 6 August 2019 source ↗
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Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
Wasting my life.
Losing a loved one.
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Carrie helped me keep to a strict rhythm, but all the essays took shape in very idiosyncratic ways.
At a basic level, I think something is successful if I think I got myself anywhere new at all.
It used to be dosing people out of my purse at parties. Now it’s leaving the hang at 11 p.m. to get in bed.
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