Neil Patrick Harris
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That it all goes away and never comes back.
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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.
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗
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David Hasselhoff
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Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
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Running out of Molecule cologne.
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I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.
I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
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