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Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.
I’m afraid of the dark.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
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Procrastination.
A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
Runway 27R at Heathrow.
I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
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