Heights - I get vertigo if I stand up.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 1 June 2007 source ↗
The question
What is your greatest fear?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.
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Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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And actually they are right, because I have a real fear of blood.
Being on a plane that is about to crash.
Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
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I want my money back.
I want my money back.
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