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Lack of confidence.
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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.
When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗
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Bruce Dickinson
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Procrastination.
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Procrastination.
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Still biting my nails.
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Balancing my inner and outer life.
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
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