Julie Andrews
English actress, singer and author
I interrupt too much.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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.
Procrastination.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗
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Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Acting like the good little girl.
Adrian Dunbar
Irish actor
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
Impatience. I’m not very good at waiting around or dealing with things that aren’t moving at a pace that I want them to.
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View profile →I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
“What makes you think you are so special?”
I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
Runway 27R at Heathrow.
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