Being judgmental.
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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.
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Thinking that singing makes me fit.
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Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
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I don’t give myself that much thought.
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In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
Full of passion and laughter.
Unfriendliness.
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