Julie Taymor
Theatre and film director
Love of fun and food and great conversation.
What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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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
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.
Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 March 2018 source ↗
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Judy Blume
Novelist
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Recorded
His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010
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Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
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View profile →The loss of a child.
On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.
Reading. And, in particular, reading on the deck of the cabin while my children play in the river below.
Quickly, without warning, maybe even in my sleep, and while we're putting in requests: before I lose my mind and my ability to gallop across the countryside on horseback.
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