Malala Yousafzai: What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Malala Yousafzai

Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace

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I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗

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Douglas Booth

When people are rude to their waiter.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

Alfred Molina

Cruelty and not treating others as equals.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen English interior designer and television personality

Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗

Alfre Woodard

Inefficiency. Whiners.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

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I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

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Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

I'm trying to be more organized.

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Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

They treat me as a regular person.

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Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Being grateful for what you have.

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Question If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? Time & hindsight

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2014 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Women in leadership positions in every field who are using their advantages to inspire younger women.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗

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