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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.
Dying alone and in pain.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗
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Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
Flipping my wig.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Not trying something I really want to do.
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View profile →My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table.
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