Michael Flatley
American step dancer
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
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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.
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”
Losing my makeup bag.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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View profile →My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
When our family was complete.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
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