Pedro Almodóvar
Film director
A sudden summer breeze on a hot afternoon.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
How would you like to die?
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.
A glass of red wine with ice.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2014 source ↗
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Zadie Smith
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Reading quietly, in high grass, among loved ones (who are also quietly reading). Followed by a boozy lunch.
I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.
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