Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
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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.
Self-criticism.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2014 source ↗
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Michael Flatley
American step dancer
I don’t give myself that much thought.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Laziness and procrastination.
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Lack of self-criticism.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
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