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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.
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗
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Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Judy Blume
Novelist
That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
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View profile →Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
Like a dryer going off in your stomach.
Being at one with yourself.
As the Queen of Rock’n’Roll. As a woman who showed other women that it is OK to strive for success on their own terms.
I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.
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