Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
Procrastination.
Holding a grudge.
I’m judgmental.
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.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
Robert Evans, Vera Wang, Mel Brooks, Ed Koch, Lena Dunham, Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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