To my mother for having to bail me out when I was young.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗
The question
What do you value most in your friends?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.
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Richard Ford
Novelist and short-story writer
reconcile us to life as it is, and make us more real to ourselves.
Satya Nadella
Chief executive of Microsoft
I think the cycles of demand and ... .
Aziz Sancar
Biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
In an interview, Sancar stated that in his youth, he was an idealist but he didn't participate in activities.
Judy Blume
Novelist
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
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Not having children.
I hated writing and I hated reading.
My ex-wife.
I don't believe in discrimination when it comes to animals.
I tested whistles for the police.
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