Danielle Steel
Novelist
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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.
First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 February 2010 source ↗
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How my PTSD manifests—it feels like being the only ballerina in the company saddled with a 100-pound backpack and told to go out onstage and still be graceful.
Melissa Etheridge
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?
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I think you can strive to attain it, but be realistic about the outcome. In the meantime, I find I might be experiencing it through flashes or brief moments in love and art, and at times just being alive.
When my friends and I were making Mean Streets, 1973.
Laziness, wasting time. I’d like to be able to make films faster.
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