Failure. I hate losing, particularly at football and politics. I play five-a-side every week – middle of midfield, barking orders. Some people say it’s the taking part that counts. I am not in that camp. It’s the winning that counts.
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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.
A world where greed rules.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
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Olivia de Havilland
Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
John Waters
American filmmaker
Losing my mind and not knowing it.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
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Two-faced phony-baloneys.
My son. He is a teenager.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
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