Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Minding not being liked.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗
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Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
I’d rather name one for someone else. I’m egomaniacal.
Impatience and vanity.
Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.
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View profile →When I was a teenager, I laughed at a joke I didn’t understand. Whoever told the joke turned to me and said, “What are you laughing at?” Of course I didn’t know and he obviously knew I didn’t know. It was excruciating.
Not to take anything for granted.
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
If my children remember me as fondly as I remember my mum, that would be a treat.
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.
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