Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
Impatience. My dad said I was born in a hurry.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What happens when we die?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Originally asked
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.
I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
I’ve learned to give myself a break. Everyone should.
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View profile →I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
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.”
Can I have more than three? Creative, kind, a grafter, engaging, loyal, fun and generous.
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.
That I am still creative.
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
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