Very impatient, bossy, always late.
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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.
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Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
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Julie Andrews
English actress, singer and author
I interrupt too much.
I’m terribly impatient.
Willem Dafoe
Actor
Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
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I was a waiter with my old friend Justin Clayton; we would sneak in too many drinks and were fired after spilling soup too many times on customers.
Ghosting, where you are mid-conversation with someone and they disappear off the face of the planet.
For being one of the good guys.
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A bee in my bonnet – whether that’s a song in my head or a person I’m thinking about.
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