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Getting thrown down a well.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Audra McDonald
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Balloons. I have a big phobia of balloons. Big.
My children dying before me.
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Johnny Flynn
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I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
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Whenever it was, it’s likely I was actually miserable, destitute and alone.
I bore myself constantly.
A mutant turtle ninja.
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