People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
No one I can think of offhand.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗
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Oprah Winfrey. She always does the right thing—even when no one is looking.
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