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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
Laziness. After 30 years of being a disciplined athlete with an intensely tight schedule, I still can’t forgive myself for letting things slide.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
My tendency to be avoidant.
How long do we have?
It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
Carol Vorderman, because she’s stuck her head above the parapet to try to hold our bizarre politicians to account.
A 28ft motorboat, which sat in the water for two years because I was so busy working.
Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
Other people get sad.
Eugene Levy, Paapa Essiedu, Robert De Niro, Judy Blume, Allison Janney, Erin Doherty
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