Hans Zimmer
Film composer
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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.
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗
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Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
Not actualising my full potential.
Sharon Corr
Musical artist
Not fulfilling my potential.
Heights. I love being high, but I don’t like being up high.
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View profile →I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.
Self-importance, arrogance.
I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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