I try too hard not to get things wrong.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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I talk over people all the time.
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I’ve learned to give myself a break. Everyone should.
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Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
Never picking up the check.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
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