Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
My children ending up anything like me.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What happens when we die?
Death & what remains
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
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That I can’t write.
Losing consciousness or awareness.
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View profile →I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
“Your lyrics are rubbish.” It was someone I was working with when I was in my early 20s. It turned out well because I then spent a long time studying and learning how to write good lyrics.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
Knowing everyone I love is always going to be healthy.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
Forty-eight hours after giving birth, I sent a picture that someone had sent me of their baby to a WhatsApp group, thinking it was my son (they kind of looked similar). Mortifying.
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