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On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
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.
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View all 256 →Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
My children ending up anything like me.
Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
I’ll know it when I see it. Hello, Room 101.
More from Michael Flatley
View profile →I think any of us will be lucky to be remembered at all.
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
Rhythm patterns from my dance shows.
Aside from the night that my wife said yes, creating Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, and employing thousands of dancers for the last 30 years.
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
I don’t give myself that much thought.
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