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.
My intense self-loathing.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
My bottomless pit of need. Soft erections. It was hard to keep it to just two.
My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
Holding a grudge.
Figuratively doing nothing.
Unwillingness to change.
My wife, Grace.
Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.
Lucy Beaumont, Lena Dunham, Don Rickles, Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant, Jack Davenport
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