Matthew Modine
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I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Always trying to turn things into a joke.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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My inability to say no.
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My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
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