Sharon Corr
Musical artist
Not fulfilling my potential.
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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.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
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James Norton
English actor
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
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Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016
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View profile →A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.
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