Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
That they get it.
What do you value most in your friends?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2011 source ↗
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View all 65 →It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
Seeing and being seen.
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View profile →The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.
Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.
Any cancer survivor.
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