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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What most recently made you cry?
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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.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
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View all 243 →Insecurity around money. I have this profound insecurity about not having enough to provide for my family.
Being overly critical.
I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
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Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
My son. He is a teenager.
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