Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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.
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
Roger Ebert
Film critic
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
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View profile →Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.
Trying too hard to be funny.
Having no patience.
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
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