Tina Turner: Which trait in yourself do you like least?

The question

Which trait in yourself do you like least?

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.

Tina Turner

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

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Antonio Banderas

My pathological incapacity to say no.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗

Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, short story writer and essayist

If I had a trait that I truly deplored, I would work to erase or modify it…Probably, a lack of discipline. (Though people think that I write quickly, & don’t revise, quite the reverse is true.) To myself, I work very slowly & painstakingly, & am often frustrated by accomplishing so little. My friend Margaret Atwood has said that in the late afternoon she is likely to be overcome by a feeling of desperation that she has accomplished so little that day, & this is a feeling I share, often. It seems that I waste most of my time gazing out the window here at my (overgrown) garden; & when I am in Berkeley, where I spend about one-third of the year, I am forever gazing out the window toward the San Francisco Bay & a continually changing, always-beautiful sky.

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

Angela Hartnett English chef