That we will drown in plastic waste.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 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 →A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
A world where greed rules.
Rosie Jones
British comedian and actress
Not being liked.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
I don’t think it’s misused yet, people are afraid of it might be misused but on the other hand, there is also value in finding out about the relation between several particular predispositions. You might be more careful if you are told that your genetic background is such that you shouldn’t eat fat in large amounts or so, it does help you change your life a little bit and so it’s not so bad, but it’s hard to find out which genetic background is causing these things.
Recorded
Marika Griehsel, Interview at the 53rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 30 June–4 July 2003, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 July 2003
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More from Alison Steadman
View profile →Not making a movie with Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant.
Friendly and warm.
I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
A critic once said she wanted to lift a carpet, put me under it and hold it down until I stopped moving.
Lack of understanding and tolerance.
When my son was born and I realised I was a mum.
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