Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Being found out.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
The concept of eternity.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
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That I’ll never work again.
People finding out my greatest fear.
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I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
When my bowels move freely and without complications.
Overeating when stressed.
The character of Frasier Crane – he's given me hours of laughter and an appreciation of the finer things in life.
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