Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
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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.
Impatience. My dad said I was born in a hurry.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗
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Robert Glenister
English actor
Lack of confidence.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
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In the Sultan of Brunei’s will.
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
Pleasure is a glass of champagne, happiness is when you are living your values. I get up each morning and I’m excited by the day, and I have good health. This is the happiest that I’ve ever been.
To have been one of the people who brought hypnotherapy to the world.
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