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Procrastination.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗
The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
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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.
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Others on this question
View all 239 →I can be pedantic at times.
Speaking negatively to myself.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
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Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
“What makes you think you are so special?”
I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
Runway 27R at Heathrow.
A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
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