Sally Mann
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Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
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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.
I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2003 source ↗
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Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
Rita Moreno
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That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
That they be intelligent and engaged.
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Spending time with my family—with no phone, no fax, and no meetings.
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
My mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and my father-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who founded Job Corps and was the first director of the Peace Corps.
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