Losing my mind.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m a very fearless person.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
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Charles Dance
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Never working again.
The death of my loved ones.
Climate change, duh.
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Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Indecision and wishy-washiness.
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