The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
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.
Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
I’m very impatient – next question.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
Not being honest.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
Finding a partner.
There’s a tweet somewhere saying, “If you like Africa so much, why don’t you go back there.” It was because I dedicated one of my dances to my three mothers – Mother Africa, Mother Nature and my mother.
Sarah Perry, Joseph Fiennes, Helen Mirren, Clare Bailey Mosley, Vick Hope, John Lewis
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