Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
Balancing my inner and outer life.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗
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Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
silver bullet is probably incentives. I think that if corporate America really said, "you're not going to get your full bonus if you don't have a diverse team working for you," I think we'd see some changes, really, really fast.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
My discomfort with being alone.
I would like to be less impulsive.
More from Patti LaBelle
View profile →Having fun with my sisters back in the day. I miss playing cards and fighting over crabs with them every weekend.
Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
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