Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
People who pretend to have perfect marriages. Perfect marriages are like orgasms – many of them are faked.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Lack of self-criticism.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2014 source ↗
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Kellie Maloney
Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
Being two-faced.
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
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View profile →Self-criticism.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
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