Megan Rapinoe
United States international footballer, 2006–2023
Humor and honesty. And, like me, they always think the unnecessary last drink is a great idea.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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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.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Availability. Just kidding. Character.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
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Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
To place faith over facts.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
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