Ronnie O'Sullivan
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I’ve got no patience.
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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.
Laziness and procrastination.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗
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Audra McDonald
Singer and actor
If hoarding and procrastination were Olympic sports, I’d have at least 70 gold medals.
Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.
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Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
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