Indira Varma: What trait do you most dislike in other people? — FLAPSS

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What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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Indira Varma

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People who abuse their power to subjugate others.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗

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Fran Healy Scottish musician

I have a hard time with people who are manipulative.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2024 source ↗

Discrimination, for any reason.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗

David Hockney Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer

That they don’t give way quickly.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗

Trying too hard to be funny.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

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To have the courage to fail.

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Through rose-tinted spectacles.

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Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.

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Having a family and still loving each other.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗

Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Competitive, curious, silly.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗

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