Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
At the moment, Ukraine’s president.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
David Spade’s assistant.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2001 source ↗
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Stephen Graham
English actor
My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
Anne Enright
Novelist and short-story writer
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Alanis Morissette because, in my earlier career, she was a big influence on me and had a feistiness that you didn’t see much of in women in the industry. Also, she has been very vocal about mental health issues.
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