Marina Abramović
Performance artist
To be eaten by a shark.
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Change of mind
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Time & hindsight
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.
Not trying something I really want to do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗
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Lily Tomlin
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Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
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A year ago. My understanding of what love is has changed immensely since.
Working at a petrol station.
Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
Getting rid of my phone.
Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
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