Joan Rivers
Comedian
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
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What is your favourite side project?
Craft & work
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What is the biggest obstacle you have faced professionally?
Craft & work
Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
And actually they are right, because I have a real fear of blood.
Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 2 January 2012 source ↗
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Joseph Fiennes
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That fear becomes too great.
I’m a very fearless person.
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The only way to de-stress for me is to take one or two days off and then come back.
Apart from my business I engage in civic issues. I do a lot of work with the Government of Karnataka, both for the biotech sector as well as for the city of Bangalore.
When we develop blockbuster novel products and the world sits up and takes us seriously, then I would probably sleep peacefully.
Then, I would have made a difference to humankind. That will be the legacy I would like to leave.
I faced a number of credibility hurdles linked to gender, youth and the nature of my business venture.
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