Climate change, duh.
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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.
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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View all 266 →That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Not waking up in the morning.
That I can’t write.
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View profile →I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
“You’re a wonderful musician but a terrible friend.” It was Daniel Barenboim, the famous conductor, because I didn’t have time in the calendar to work with him.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
Absolutely nothing.
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