Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Running out of options.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
That I’ll never work again.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗
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View all 285 →The greatest fear I can remember is coming back from WW II and being amazed that I was more afraid to audition for a job than I was flying 52 missions.
Losing my mind.
David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
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Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
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