Philippa Gregory: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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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.

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Philippa Gregory

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I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

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Jerry Lewis American comedian, actor and filmmaker

When the audience walks toward the stage.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

Michael Flatley American step dancer

On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗

I’m a very fearless person.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗

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Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

Question What thought won't let you sleep? Daily life

An exciting idea. I usually write for an hour or so, and then I go to sleep.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

Not for a long time.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

Question What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life? Daily life

A full-time driver/butler/chef.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

Question What would you most want to leave your children? Death & what remains

I’d like them to inherit my optimism.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

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