I worry that if I don’t challenge myself professionally I’ll lie on the sofa and watch old episodes of Law & Order all day.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗
The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
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View all 239 →Being too thin-skinned.
My Sicilian impulsiveness.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
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Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
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