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Originally asked
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.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2018 source ↗
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Jane Asher
English actress and author
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
The current occupant of the White House.
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