Not being able to work.
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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.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
More from Laurie Metcalf
View profile →Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
My sister, who manages to see the positive in any situation.
Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
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