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Not fulfilling my potential.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 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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John Malkovich
American actor
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
Going back to addiction.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021
To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
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Trust my instincts.
I don’t have a sorry.
Procrastination.
When I initially made money with the Corrs, I bought a Jaguar XK8.
A warm sunny day. You get this bubble around you and, all of a sudden, problems are halved.
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