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Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Right where I am now.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2010 source ↗
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When the kids were babies.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2011 source ↗
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View profile →Freeloaders with a sense of entitlement.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2010 source ↗
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