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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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View all 193 →Caring too much about what others think.
I’m irritated by critics and academics who dismiss poetry that is popular, comprehensible or humorous.
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Guys who use the word “snot.”
Entitlement, arrogance, and bigotry.
More from Daphne Guinness
View profile →I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
My children obviously, but also my work.
My trust in other people. I am rigorously honest.
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
I wanted to be in the army or a spy in the intelligence service.
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