Sharon Corr
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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.
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗
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Never working again.
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Flipping my wig.
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My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
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