To be completely alone.
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Originally asked
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.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
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Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
Can I have more than three? Creative, kind, a grafter, engaging, loyal, fun and generous.
A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
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