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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?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.
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View all 256 →That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
Talking too much.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
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View profile →Shyness. It really held me back when I was younger, and I wish it hadn’t. I do a better job of not being so shy these days.
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
My happiest moments are when I am wild camping with my family in Scotland and cooking on a fire by a river.
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