Not getting to the point.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Relationships
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What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it?
Failure & regret
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What inspires you to learn?
Attention & the world
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What have you come to understand about what it means to be human?
Values & belief
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How does a new work begin for you?
Craft & work
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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?
Values & belief
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Yielding to the wrong sort of melancholia.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2014 source ↗
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Meghan Trainor
American singer-songwriter
My self-criticism.
Impatience. I’m not very good at waiting around or dealing with things that aren’t moving at a pace that I want them to.
Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
Catastrophising.
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View profile →My mum beautifully embraced and encouraged the unpredictability of my wayward career.
The only experience I’ve had, in the early 90s I was working in the theatre and I went through a very bad period, 3 or 4 years, of dread inducing panic attacks before going out on stage and then I got an international film career and they sort of disappeared [laughter].
I still regularly read New Scientist to try to keep up with quantum theory and cosmological discoveries and so forth. And I read National Geographic—that’s not a plug.
He was vulnerable to all the sorts of contradictions that every human can be subject to.
Choosing parts is based on a series of instincts and hunches
we are bashed by the media who say we should compete with Hollywood.
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