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What do you fear most?

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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.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2019 source ↗
Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
Ardal O'Hanlon Irish comedian and actor
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗

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