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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.
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗
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Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.
Losing consciousness or awareness.
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View profile →Self-importance, arrogance.
I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.
I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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