I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
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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.
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.
Talking too much.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
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View profile →As an optimist.
Still to come, I think.
At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.
“You’ll never do well as an actor unless you change your name.” I’m not going to say who.
Being torn to shreds by a very elderly woman for driving badly on the Isle of Man, maybe 15 years ago. She stopped in the middle of the road and really let me have it.
To do the very best you can and then let it go.
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