If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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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.

Recorded Carol Burnett said elsewhere, not written here
My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2020 source ↗

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Charlie Munger Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
Stephen Fry Actor, writer and broadcaster
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗

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