They want nothing but friendship.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
They take my calls.
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View profile →To place faith over facts.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
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