What is your greatest fear?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

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Dying, because I am so happy now.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

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Rita Wilson American actress, singer, and producer
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗
Mindy Kaling
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗
Andrea Bocelli
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

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