The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
That I give way too quickly.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
Self-flagellation.
Impatience; the inability to savor the moment.
Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
That they don’t give way quickly.
I thought I was a hedonist at the time, but when I look back I was always working. I am always working. I work every day. I never give parties; I never gave them.
To get the most out of the world around you you’ve got to really look hard. Most people out walking in the woods don’t really look. They just glance around. They scan. Before I start a painting I spend a lot of time looking and thinking, I go out in the car and pull a chair out of the boot and sit in the woods. I sit there and smoke and just look.
Adele Parks, Guy Pearce, Daryl McCormack, Fran Healy, Ed Harris, Chaka Khan
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