No man has ever tried to pinch my bottom or lay a hand on me, and they’ve always shown me great respect. There’s a lot of rapists and bad men out there but a lot of decent ones too.
The Guardian, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗
The question
What do you value most in your friends?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
Bintou Keita
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General; head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.
The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
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View profile →I try not to be a burden to people, I’m too strong and independent for that.
I told Sean Connery he’d have to lose his Glaswegian accent and take elocution lessons if he wanted to be an actor. When he became James Bond, I never got a chance to tell him how wrong I’d been.
I see a woman I like, who is always worried about her hair.
I've never really been unhappy.
I was a serious little girl growing up in Leeds and had supportive parents who were instrumental in my success.
I was a serious little girl growing up in Leeds and had supportive parents who were instrumental in my success.
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