Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
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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.
Procrastination.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
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Andy Serkis
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I am a workaholic. I love what I do, but I am aware that it can become obsessive.
I’m quite stubborn.
Melissa Etheridge
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Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
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About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.
A few weeks ago, walking on the beach in Anglesey with my dogs and my husband.
Recently, sending a negative text about a person to that person.
Pain and loneliness.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
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