My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I worry that if I don’t challenge myself professionally I’ll lie on the sofa and watch old episodes of Law & Order all day.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗
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I interrupt too much.
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View profile →Sundays in Paris with Jeffrey. We go to the Sunday market, make a nice lunch, drink a big bottle of Burgundy, and then take a long delicious nap. Heaven.
Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.
I don’t care as long as Jeffrey and I go together and we end up in a big suite with a view of the ocean.
That they want to be with me.
Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
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