I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗
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