Julian Lennon
English musician, photographer, and philanthropist
Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Originally asked
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.
Picking my nose.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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My inability to say no.
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Picking their nose and eating it.
I haven't seen a ghost yet.
Jeff Buckley's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
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That fear becomes too great.
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