Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
Not actualising my full potential.
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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.
Not enough food in the fridge.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
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Having a stroke.
Pain of any sort.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
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I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
Trying to do a million things at once.
Kind, funny, alive.
A magazine editor.
Things, situations, people evolve constantly. Nothing is static.
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