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Sheer drops, like a precipice.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Mike Skinner
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That I might have to do a normal job.
Rosie Jones
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Not being liked.
That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
Joyce Carol Oates
Novelist, short story writer and essayist
Sometimes, it is the possibility of loneliness. Other times, it is the possibility of never being alone, having no privacy, being under the control of another.
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That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
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I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
Meanness and lying.
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
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