Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
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James Norton
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Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
Joyce Carol Oates
Novelist, short story writer and essayist
Sometimes, it is the possibility of loneliness. Other times, it is the possibility of never being alone, having no privacy, being under the control of another.
I’m afraid of the dark.
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Being judgmental.
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