I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
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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.
Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 September 2025 source ↗
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View all 49 →Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
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Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Being judgmental.
Playing the Cowardly Lion in our fourth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. Thank you, Mr. Riccobono.
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