Guy Pearce
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My fear of confrontation.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
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I interrupt too much.
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My impotence in the face of war.
Politics. And casting directors.
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Loving, odd, playful. Jeepers, I’ve described myself like a damaged rescue puppy.
So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
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