I think when I was younger, I had a lot of the fears that, that you expect from people. Like I was kind of afraid of spiders and things like that. And I think with, you know, years of dealing with fear nonstop, they've all sort of fallen away. I, I mean, I guess my greatest fear is like public embarrassment or public performance, or like what I said earlier about opera singing I'm like, that is still for sure that would be a nightmare. And like, yeah, I could do it. But I would be so bummed.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
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Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
As someone who made people laugh, introduced them to good music and wasn’t too much of a pain in the arse.
Fairly decent bloke.
A nice long rest.
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