Danielle Steel
Novelist
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Meghan Markle. I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗
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Steffi Graf
German tennis player
The man I know the best: Andre.
Ice-T
American rapper and actor
Barack Obama – just for the simple fact he took the shot and went all the way to president.
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View profile →Balloons. I have a big phobia of balloons. Big.
If hoarding and procrastination were Olympic sports, I’d have at least 70 gold medals.
In my bed at home at a ripe old age with the knowledge that my children, and grandchildren if I have any, are thriving, happy, and provided for.
In the hospital giving birth to my second daughter with my first daughter right there in the room as it was happening. I don’t remember any pain. I just remember feeling more alive and full of fierce mama bear love than at any other point in my life.
Being at home on a Sunday night with my husband, Will, and all of our children, eating chicken tikka masala and naan from our favorite restaurant.
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