The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Impatience and temper. Enough already!
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2015 source ↗
Jealousy. It’s the thief of joy.
Being two-faced.
People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
As someone who loved the ideals of American democracy and made my small contribution to it.
I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.
There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
After the war, when I was about nine, we were held up in our home. The robbers grabbed my father and had a gun at his throat. It was terrifying. My mother got a wad of money and gave it to the people, and they ran away.
When Brad and I got married. We had to struggle for it. It involved a nationwide speaking tour, lobbying Congress and campaigning intensely. We were the first couple to get our marriage licence in West Hollywood.
Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
David Hasselhoff, Daphne Guinness, Hans Zimmer, Seann Walsh, Tom Fletcher, Tina Fey
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