Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
Balancing my inner and outer life.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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
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.
My inability to have romantic relationships.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2001 source ↗
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
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My driving skills.
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