I overthink everything.
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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.
Impatience. Though sometimes it helps!
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗
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My love of sugar.
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Being judgmental.
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View profile →When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
The ability to teleport. I’d be unstoppable.Would you rather have more sex, money or fame? More than those, I’d like more time.
That there is no ideal life. Disappointments sit around every corner, so enjoy the here and now.
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
In African families, you can be one of three things: a doctor, a lawyer or a failure. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, but things worked out in the end.
When my trousers nearly fell down at Buckingham Palace. I was there to collect my OBE, and the suspenders for the beautiful Alexander McQueen suit I’d had made for the occasion went missing. Naomi Campbell was with me and we had a good laugh about it.
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