Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
Flipping my wig.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2016 source ↗
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Not fulfilling my potential.
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That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
Close friends, spectacular food, gorgeous weather, and interesting conversation!
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I’m disorganized.
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