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Taking fucking forever. Can’t you see I’m waiting?
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
Their inability to deal with my disorganisation.
Julian Lennon
English musician, photographer, and philanthropist
Ghosting, where you are mid-conversation with someone and they disappear off the face of the planet.
Caring too much about what others think.
People who aren’t polite.
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My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.
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