Joseph Fiennes
English actor
That fear becomes too great.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Collapse of the imagination.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2024 source ↗
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Pete Rozelle
Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
I personally feel that drugs constitute the biggest major problem we have in this country, forgetting sports, because drugs create the medical problems that cause the increase in all our medical costs. They contribute to the homeless, that’s a big problem many people see today, and a lot of that stems from drugs. So I feel very, very uptight about it, and I wanted to do as much as I could.
I’ll know it when I see it. Hello, Room 101.
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Tramping through the woods in South Jersey in 1957 with my dog Bambi.
I would love to have a better sense of physical balance.
The artist Gerhard Richter.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. […] Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.
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Christian Lund, Louisiana Literature festival, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012, Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012
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