Mike Skinner
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That I might have to do a normal job.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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.
Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗
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Going back to addiction.
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Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
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I have no idea what perfect happiness feels like, but I am looking forward to the experience.
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