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Not actualising my full potential.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Joyce Carol Oates
Novelist, short story writer and essayist
Sometimes, it is the possibility of loneliness. Other times, it is the possibility of never being alone, having no privacy, being under the control of another.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Mike Skinner
English rapper
That I might have to do a normal job.
Incapacitation.
More from Daryl McCormack
View profile →I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
To trust in the process.
For being joyful.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
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