Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
I don’t care as long as Jeffrey and I go together and we end up in a big suite with a view of the ocean.
Simon Boas
Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid
My pain is under control and I'm terribly happy - it sounds weird to say, but I'm as happy as I've ever been in my life. I used to think I'd rather be hit by the proverbial bus, but having a couple of months knowing this is coming has really helped me both do the boring 'death-min', but also get my thoughts and prepare myself, and feel so accepting of what's to come. It's been such a great bonus, actually.
Sally Mann
Photographer
Quickly, without warning, maybe even in my sleep, and while we're putting in requests: before I lose my mind and my ability to gallop across the countryside on horseback.
Patrick Stewart
Actor
If needed—a doctor-assisted death.
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Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
To place faith over facts.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
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