David Hockney
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That they don’t give way quickly.
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t like fake people, impostors.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗
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It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
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My pathological incapacity to say no.
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