Hans Zimmer
Film composer
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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 love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
Balancing my inner and outer life.
Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.
Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
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Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.
In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
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