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Sheer drops, like a precipice.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 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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Rosie Jones
British comedian and actress
Not being liked.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
More from Bruno Tonioli
View profile →Meanness and lying.
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Follow your dream and never give up, because it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Ride the adventure!
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
Do you have 10 pages? Once, I was dancing in a costume that was like a corset. During a move, the corset ripped and exploded, and I had to carry on doing the number practically in my jockstrap.
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