Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
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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.
That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗
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Danielle Steel
Novelist
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
John Malkovich
American actor
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Figuratively doing nothing.
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Being married for 17 years and having two amazing children.
A loving father and wonderful husband, and the best actor of my generation!
A sense of wonder.
I cry if one of the kids says something profound without knowing it; I cry at adverts; I cry at Strictly Come Dancing.
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