Derek Jeter: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Derek Jeter

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Being unprepared.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Sally Mann Photographer

The loss of a child.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗

That I’ll never work again.

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

My belief that saying it makes it happen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗

Aung San Suu Kyi Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021

To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 16 June 2012 source ↗

Being surrounded by friends and family.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2011 source ↗

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