Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
Impatience. Though sometimes it helps!
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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.
No sense of humor.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗
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James Norton
English actor
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
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No sense of humor.
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