Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
Taste & recommendation
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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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.
Not being able to work.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 February 2026 source ↗
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