Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
What is your greatest fear?
Question
How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
Having no way of earning money.
Climate change.
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None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.
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