When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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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.
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
To be stuck in the past.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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View profile →I bought a Mercedes convertible brand new in 2016 and I’ve only done 4,000 miles. I love cars – if I’m going to blow it, it’ll be on a sports car. I already have my eyes on the next one – I’ll get Simon Cowell to buy it.
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Follow your dream and never give up, because it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Ride the adventure!
Meanness and lying.
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.
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
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