Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
I love to break rules.
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How close have you come to death?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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.
Trying to do a million things at once.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
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I’m judgmental.
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Self-absorption.
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If mobile phones hadn’t been invented.
“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
Kind, funny, alive.
Not enough food in the fridge.
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