Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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 enough food in the fridge.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
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Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
Not trying something I really want to do.
Being on a plane that is about to crash.
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No one, I’m pretty good at saying sorry.
“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
Trying to do a million things at once.
Things, situations, people evolve constantly. Nothing is static.
Nearly crashing into a train on one film, almost falling out of a hot-air balloon on another, narrowly avoiding getting knocked over by a taxi …
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