Fran Healy
Scottish musician
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
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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 would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
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Alice Waters
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The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
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Still biting my nails.
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My biggest disappointment would be living with disappointment. What a burden to be shackled to. I would be truly disappointed if I didn’t (as the song says) pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.
Having a great fear.
As a kind person who cared for others.
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
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