Seth Meyers
American comedian and TV host
Running out of ideas.
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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.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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John Malkovich
American actor
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
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The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
If I don't do that with the bottles, then I sit down, I could be thinking of something else. If I do always the same things, it means that I am focused and I'm alert to think purely about tennis.
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Sometimes when I'm in the first round or second round, and I'm not playing well, I say, okay, just accept it. Don't get frustrated. Just accept and focus.
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