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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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View all 193 →Cruelty, and also general rudeness and unkindness. I’ve always told my children: Don’t ever find entertainment in someone else’s discomfort.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
Trying too hard to be funny.
People who can’t wait to argue.
More from Daphne Guinness
View profile →My children obviously, but also my work.
I wanted to be in the army or a spy in the intelligence service.
Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
My trust in other people. I am rigorously honest.
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