Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
My inability to have romantic relationships.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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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
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.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 April 2014 source ↗
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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.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
My discomfort with being alone.
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View profile →Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.
It’s hard to pick one time. I feel like I’m quite a happy person. My ninth birthday was epic, though.
My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.
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