Jane Asher
English actress and author
Minding not being liked.
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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.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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I dislike my relationship with food. I wish I didn’t love food so much.
John Grisham
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Impatience; the inability to savor the moment.
My bottomless pit of need. Soft erections. It was hard to keep it to just two.
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Never picking up the check.
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
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