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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
My pathological incapacity to say no.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗
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Arthur Ashkin
Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers
I can be cranky,
I’m so tempted to answer serial killer.
I very often set my heart on things – and if they don’t happen, I’m not great at dealing with disappointment.
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Pedro Almodóvar, for being loyal to his personality as an artist against all the odds.
I don’t like fake people, impostors.
The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
The death of my loved ones.
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