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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t like fake people, impostors.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 202 →Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
A lack of generosity. It can take so many forms—it doesn’t just have to do with money—so I’m always shocked when people can’t muster any at all.
Willful ignorance.
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View profile →The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
The death of my loved ones.
My pathological incapacity to say no.
Pedro Almodóvar, for being loyal to his personality as an artist against all the odds.
The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.
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