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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.
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 May 2026 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
Dependency. Fascism.
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Snobbishness, superiority, condescension.
Accidentally walking on to set naked for a scene where I wasn’t actually supposed to be naked.
People singing in the street.
Like nothing’s a problem.
In the back of my mind I just assumed I’d be in a boyband at some point.
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