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Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?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.
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Gayle King
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I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
When I was little, a couple of rapes took place in Glasgow. I remember my mum saying to walk in the middle of the pavement, and to this day I am very conscious of where I am.
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
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Glenn Miller's A String Of Pearls.
I would not toy with people's affections as much.
To a man whose heart I broke at 17.
A $100,000 Mercedes.
Worrying about my children.
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