Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
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John Mellencamp
Singer and songwriter
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
Making trails and building a tree house.
Drinks on the deck at sunset.
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They take my calls.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
That I’ll die worrying.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
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