Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗
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Henry Marsh
Neurosurgeon and writer
Sufficiently well to see Johnson and Truss and then two or three days later, she’s dead. I thought, that’s fantastic. That’s something to celebrate. That’s a great death.
Joan Rivers
Comedian
Coming offstage after a five-minute standing ovation, falling into the arms of my lover, and having the doctor look at me and say, “This is impossible! She looks much too young to go!”
Pedro Almodóvar
Film director
Like John Huston, after shooting The Dead.
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That they won’t let me hide.
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 P.M., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand.
Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
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