I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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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.
Asking my wife questions that don't need to be asked.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗
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Time blindness.
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If hoarding and procrastination were Olympic sports, I’d have at least 70 gold medals.
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View profile →My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Modelling tuxedos at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1971.
The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.
Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.
Dick Cheney for hating him for being one of the most destructive people on Earth.
Greed and stupidity.
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