Caroline Lucas: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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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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Caroline Lucas

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Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

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Being found out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗

Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer

Sheer drops, like a precipice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗

Father John Misty American musician

Getting thrown down a well.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗

Harlan Coben American author

I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗

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Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

A holiday job as a chambermaid at the Scratchwood Travelodge on the M1. The state some people leave their rooms in was a revelation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life? Daily life

Following the Zen proverb: you should sit and meditate for 20 minutes; if you’re too busy, then you should sit and meditate for an hour.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question What lesson has mattered most in your life? Time & hindsight

People remember how you make them feel more than they remember what you say or do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

Today’s children and young people – we’ve let them down by not doing more to prevent the nature and climate crisis, and left them such a huge responsibility.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

For making a difference.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

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