Chaka Khan
American singer
I am not afraid.
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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.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
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Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
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Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016
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When my kids had little teeth and curly hair, and hadn’t discovered the idea of wanting to leave home.
Being judgmental.
Donny Osmond’s wife. Still do.
A Mary Berry victoria sponge.
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