David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Holding a grudge.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Getting too involved in too many things. It eats your brain.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2011 source ↗
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View all 260 →Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
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.
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View profile →Long, lingering dementia, followed by death from choking on a fishbone.
A canoe, mixed sun and cloud, no deadlines in sight.
That human beings will follow their stupid and greedy side, rather than their smart side, and go down the plughole. We’re circling the rim.
At what age? It’s been a long path. I’ll stick with Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. (“Someday I’d like to try a book like that,” I said to myself, “only with a female narrator. It would of course be quite different.”)
The white-water canoe run I did solo at Lady Evelyn Park 20 years ago. It was impromptu. It took the skin off my knees. It was an unnecessary risk.
Begrudging mean-spiritedness.
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