I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
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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.
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Procrastination.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2011 source ↗
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