David Hockney
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
That they don’t give way quickly.
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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People who speak with heavy American accents. I can barely understand them. No, seriously, dishonesty.
Not listening to me.
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I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
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Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
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