When I’m feeling lazy and I sleep in too much.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
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Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
Dolly Parton
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The fact that sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.
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Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
Meanness and lying.
I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
Follow your dream and never give up, because it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Ride the adventure!
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
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