The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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.
Christmas with my girls, my brother, my sister, and all the children.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2013 source ↗
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I think you can strive to attain it, but be realistic about the outcome. In the meantime, I find I might be experiencing it through flashes or brief moments in love and art, and at times just being alive.
Being surrounded by friends and family.
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View profile →Not at all! I don’t think that you can really choose what people will like, or say, or even remember about you. I mean, my God, probably the Birkin bag will be known. … If I look myself to find out the date of something — and the first thing that pops up is that bloody bag! I think it’ll be “Je T’aime Moi Non Plus,” when I go feet first, that’ll be the tune they’ll play on the television, and then talk about the bag
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