Craig Charles
English actor
Losing my marbles.
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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.
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗
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Harlan Coben
American author
I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.
Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
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Not to take anything for granted.
The early family skiing holidays – before I’d broken an ankle and Gerald had torn a ligament – were just wonderful.
If my children remember me as fondly as I remember my mum, that would be a treat.
When I was a teenager, I laughed at a joke I didn’t understand. Whoever told the joke turned to me and said, “What are you laughing at?” Of course I didn’t know and he obviously knew I didn’t know. It was excruciating.
Mental cruelty.
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