Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Running out of options.
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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.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
Going back to addiction.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
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View profile →Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
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