Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
What is your greatest fear?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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When was the last time you changed your mind about something?
Change of mind
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.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
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Charles Dance
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Never working again.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
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Making my mum proud.
Handing out the tequilas.
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
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