Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.
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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.
My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 March 2026 source ↗
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View all 243 →Laziness, wasting time. I’d like to be able to make films faster.
My ability to make everything about me.
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I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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View profile →Absolutely nothing. It’s a privilege.
I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
Lack of empathy and compassion.
As someone who cared boldly about people, stood firmly for what he believed in and lifted others when they needed help.
Building my mum her dream home.
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
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