Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
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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.
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2012 source ↗
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View all 65 →Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
That they get it.
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View profile →Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
Not always standing up for myself enough.
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