That was scary because I am afraid of guns.
Andrew D. Goulet, Interview, The Harvard Crimson, 5 October 2001 source ↗
The question
What is your greatest fear?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.
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Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
At age 97 and counting, guess.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
That I’ll die worrying.
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So living with my dad for sure influenced me.
I know what I’m doing when I’m doing it but I almost don’t know what I’m doing when I’m doing it.
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