Being an incurable workaholic.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2022 source ↗
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Judy Blume
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My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
I have a child-like fear of being late. I’m a grown man, and I’m scared I’m going to the principal’s office.
Very impatient, bossy, always late.
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If I was 40 again.
Needless aggression and bullying.
Not having come from a class that understands how the world works.
My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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