I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
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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 give myself that much thought.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗
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I have always been impatient.
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Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
Not finishing things.
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View profile →My recent battle with cancer.
The day my son was born.
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
I think any of us will be lucky to be remembered at all.
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
Aside from the night that my wife said yes, creating Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, and employing thousands of dancers for the last 30 years.
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