The question

What is your greatest fear?

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.

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Ja’Tovia Gary visual artist and filmmaker
If im fearful of the project, then I know that I am on to something interesting.
Recorded Pola Pucheta, The Creative Independent, 14 May 2024 source ↗
Ernest Borgnine
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗
Keir Starmer
Failure. I hate losing, particularly at football and politics. I play five-a-side every week – middle of midfield, barking orders. Some people say it’s the taking part that counts. I am not in that camp. It’s the winning that counts.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 source ↗

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