I’m quite stubborn.
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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.
Insecurity around money. I have this profound insecurity about not having enough to provide for my family.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2025 source ↗
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Conflict aversion.
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Being absent from my son’s life when I’m at work.
As one of a kind.
Passing wind on camera. I was doing a rather large movie and it was a closeup.
After a significant traumatic experience when I was looking for reasons to stay alive.
It is obsessive, it is glorious, it is everything that we’re put on this Earth to feel, all at once.
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