Sally Mann
Photographer
Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
What do you value most in your friends?
Question
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.
Smarts, kindness, decency, honesty, integrity, humor. Really do love a good cook! Our group of friends has been friends for a long time.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2021 source ↗
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Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player and author
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
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