Mindy Kaling: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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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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Mindy Kaling

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗

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Sally Mann Photographer

The loss of a child.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗

Rita Wilson American actress, singer, and producer

Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗

Charles Dance British actor

Never working again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

That fear becomes too great.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

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Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Sunday mornings with my parents when I visited from college.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗

Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

They want to leave the party the same time I do.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2015 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

People taking themselves seriously.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2015 source ↗

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