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When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 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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Charlotte Rampling
English actress
To die before I know certain things.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
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View profile →A shoot with a showbusiness icon who I’d loved all my life and shall remain nameless. She walked into the room and immediately said she hated everything. Things went downhill from there. Rough day.
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
That there is no ideal life. Disappointments sit around every corner, so enjoy the here and now.
In African families, you can be one of three things: a doctor, a lawyer or a failure. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, but things worked out in the end.
The ability to teleport. I’d be unstoppable.Would you rather have more sex, money or fame? More than those, I’d like more time.
Impatience. Though sometimes it helps!
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