Kellie Maloney
Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
Losing my family.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
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Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
My children ending up anything like me.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Something happening to one of my children.
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If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
How long do we have?
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
A baseball pitcher.
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