The inability to stop talking about themselves when they’re not being interviewed.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2012 source ↗
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Vick Hope
British television and radio presenter
I don’t like it when people manipulate your words, which sometimes happens in the tabloids.
Snobbishness, superiority, condescension.
Caring too much about what others think.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
English snooker player
That they think they know it all.
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Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
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