Olivia de Havilland
Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
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When were you happiest?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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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.
Danger to my children. And tidal waves.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗
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Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
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View profile →I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.
Floating in a river full of fat trout.
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