I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
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When were you happiest?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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.
Losing one of my children.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
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Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
More from Alan Dale
View profile →To never, never, never give up.
Every bad thing that’s happened, apart from Mum and Dad dying, it’s always led to something better. Always.
I have never been happier than I am now. As for when I was happiest in my work, playing King Arthur in Spamalot in the West End.
I don't like people who are selfish.
Their clothes' lines. The oil crisis could be solved if people didn't use dryers.
My tendency to be inappropriate.
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