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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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.

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David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.
Recorded Jasper Rees, Q&A, The Arts Desk, 10 October 2009 source ↗

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