Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
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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.
Nuclear holocaust.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗
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Daryl McCormack
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Not actualising my full potential.
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
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A walk on the Golden Strand beach in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland.
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