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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
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My Sicilian impulsiveness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗
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Richard Ford
Novelist and short-story writer
I just lack the basic fact-finding instinct.
Insecurity around money. I have this profound insecurity about not having enough to provide for my family.
When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.
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A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
The trait that ignites my Sicilian impulsiveness.
Filming Penny Dreadful for five months in the Republic of Ireland, sublime land of faeries and spontaneous song.
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