Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
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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.
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2024 source ↗
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Picking my nose.
Being too thin-skinned.
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If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
Nothing. I sleep like a log.
When my son got into art school.
I wish I could worry less.
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