Gayle King
Broadcaster
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
What do you value most in your friends?
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2012 source ↗
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Sally Field
Actor
That they won’t let me hide.
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
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View profile →Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
That I’ll never work again.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
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