Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
My inability to have romantic relationships.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Craft & work
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 November 2012 source ↗
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Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Nothin’. All my experiences, talents, wins, and L’s make me who I am today. I am constantly evolving, learning, and working toward not just being great, but also staying true to who I’ve always been—just a kid with a big dream from the LBC.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
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Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
Guys who use the word “snot.”
Peyton Manning.
That they get it.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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