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Premature demise.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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View all 256 →My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
I can’t say it.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
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That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
Lack of confidence.
The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.
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