Christine Baranski: Which trait in yourself do you like least?

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Which trait in yourself do you like least?

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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.

Christine Baranski

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My competitive side, the one that keeps score.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗

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Melissa Etheridge Singer, songwriter and guitarist

Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

Al Franken Senator and comedian

I had to ask people about this, because I couldn’t think of anything, and the consensus seems to be: a general lack of self-awareness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2017 source ↗

Monica Dolan

I try too hard not to get things wrong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗

Betty White

Being an incurable workaholic.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2010 source ↗

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Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗

Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

That they can pick up where we left off.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗

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