Myself or a loved one getting a life-threatening illness.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 May 2010 source ↗
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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David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
Dying too young, and spiders.
I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
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Lack of confidence.
Also, having a great team around you is so important. People that you can talk to and who work hard as well, and who you trust and you can have fun with—that’s really important.
To my mum, for being such a tricky teenager.
This one!
Being told I’m a very good friend.
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