I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
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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.
Flipping my wig.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗
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Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
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When I was growing up, I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger fear to contend with on a day‑to-day basis. It hasn’t proved to be a bother yet, but there’s still time.
Climate change, duh.
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View profile →Dishonesty and being late for appointments.
Singing onstage—and everyone walking around me saying, “Look how happy she looks.”
The fact that sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.
Any person trying to uplift mankind.
Well, I’m proud of all of them. I think the one that’s most personal to me is the lil’ Coat of Many Colors, because it talks about my mom, my parents, and kind of gives you an insight. It also covers bullying, acceptance and all that.
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A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
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