Bonnie Raitt
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When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
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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.
I can be pedantic at times.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
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Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
Oversensitivity.
Modesty and humility.
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View profile →The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Being able to share a confidence.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
The inability to listen.
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