Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
My intense self-loathing.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗
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Maxi-multitasking.
I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
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Figuratively doing nothing.
Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.
My wife, Grace.
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