Frogs and public speaking.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2011 source ↗
The question
What is your greatest fear?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.
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David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
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Sheer drops, like a precipice.
Seth Meyers
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Running out of ideas.
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
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