Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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.
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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Neil Patrick Harris
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That it all goes away and never comes back.
Becoming dickish.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
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Coming offstage after a five-minute standing ovation, falling into the arms of my lover, and having the doctor look at me and say, “This is impossible! She looks much too young to go!”
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