Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
My inability to have romantic relationships.
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What do you value most in your friends?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Originally asked
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.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
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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.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
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