If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
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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.
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2012 source ↗
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I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
I would care less about what people thought of me.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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View profile →Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
Not always standing up for myself enough.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
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