After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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View all 196 →Lack of humility, the absence of goodness.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗
Hans Zimmer
Film composer
To place faith over facts.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗
Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
Vindictiveness and spite.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
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View profile →That I’ll die worrying.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Standing up while eating.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
They take my calls.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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