Ed Koch: What do you fear most?

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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.

Ed Koch

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Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.

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

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Rachel Maddow

Becoming dickish.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗

Romola Garai

Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Mariska Hargitay

Sharks. The ones in the ocean.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

Helena Bonham Carter Actor

The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

A willingness to go with my gut feeling, rather than wait a day and contemplate other options.

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

Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

I would like to be more accepting of the faults of others.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 January 2013 source ↗

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

Sitting in a living room with my sister, Pat Thaler, and her seven grandchildren and just talking with them. They range in age from 9 to 21 years old.

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

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