Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
My discomfort with being alone.
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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.
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗
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Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Charlie Munger
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
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View profile →When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.
That they won’t let me hide.
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 P.M., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand.
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Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
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