Willem Dafoe
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Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
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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 have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗
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Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Biting my nails.
Procrastination.
Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.
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Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.
My 13-year-old self, for all the resentment.
Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
I would have started therapy earlier.
I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
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