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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.
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Sally Field
Actor
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.
Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.
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A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.
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