Not doing the above.
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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.
Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
More from Midge Ure
View profile →Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
A 28ft motorboat, which sat in the water for two years because I was so busy working.
It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
Content, assured, indecisive.
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