The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who is 100 years old and still working.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗
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