COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
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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.
A Reform government.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗
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View all 256 →Not having the people I love around me.
Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
A world where greed rules.
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Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day.
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