Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
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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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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.
The current occupant of the White House.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗
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Melissa Etheridge
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Being on a plane that is about to crash.
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Not actualising my full potential.
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When I was raising my children.
My husband, Paul, who is an enabler of the exuberance of his wife and five kids.
That I would have focused more on languages.
No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
I’m not into self-deploring.
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