Kathy Lette
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I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
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Originally asked
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.
Having no patience.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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View all 243 →Vic, my wife, has over the years reduced my impatience, but anybody who has been in a traffic jam with me will know that she hasn’t completed the task yet.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
Lack of confidence masquerading as perfectionism.
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View profile →Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
Trying too hard to be funny.
Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
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