Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
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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.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 December 2021 source ↗
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View all 158 →Family, friends, laughter, and music so loud you feel it inside.
Is there such a thing? I guess, for me, it’s really about life’s special moments, large and small.
A peaceful, joyous time in the world…or in my head.
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Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
Never picking up the check.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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