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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.
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
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Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
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Lack of confidence.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
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Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
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