Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
What do you value most in your friends?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
Money & investment
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it?
Failure & regret
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
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.
They treat me as a regular person.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 July 2019 source ↗
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Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
That they want to be with me.
Sally Mann
Photographer
Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
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Her story is why I dedicate the Nobel Peace Prize money to the Malala Fund, to help give girls quality education, everywhere, anywhere in the world and to raise their voices. The first place this funding will go to is where my heart is, to build schools in Pakistan—especially in my home of Swat and Shangla.
I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.
I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
Being grateful for what you have.
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