Robert De Niro
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I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
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I wish I could be more patient. I always want things to get done or happen now.
Pauline McLynn
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I talk over people all the time.
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Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
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