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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.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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Adam Lambert
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I have very poor time management. I am often running late, I procrastinate a lot.
When I’m feeling lazy and I sleep in too much.
My love of sugar.
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Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
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