Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
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Identity & self
Originally asked
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.
Becoming dickish.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗
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Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.
Losing my mind.
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Discretion and good cheer.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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