Henry Winkler: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Henry Winkler

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The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗

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Shonda Rhimes

Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 October 2017 source ↗

Catherine O’Hara

I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2013 source ↗

Judith Light

Having the opportunity to contribute and serve.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 September 2019 source ↗

Donatella Versace

Family, friends, laughter, and music so loud you feel it inside.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2014 source ↗

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Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

The inability to listen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

Being able to share a confidence.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I can be pedantic at times.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

Being confined in a straitjacket.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

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