I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
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 ↗
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Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
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Very large bugs.
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Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
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View profile →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.
That there is no ideal life. Disappointments sit around every corner, so enjoy the here and now.
When my trousers nearly fell down at Buckingham Palace. I was there to collect my OBE, and the suspenders for the beautiful Alexander McQueen suit I’d had made for the occasion went missing. Naomi Campbell was with me and we had a good laugh about it.
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
Impatience. Though sometimes it helps!
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.
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