A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?
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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.
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Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
Losing my mind.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
Heights, and not getting along with people.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
That I can’t write.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
When I was little, a couple of rapes took place in Glasgow. I remember my mum saying to walk in the middle of the pavement, and to this day I am very conscious of where I am.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗
Marina Abramović
Performance artist
To be eaten by a shark.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
Losing my makeup bag.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2024 source ↗
Dependency. Fascism.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
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