Danielle Steel
Novelist
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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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.
A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2011 source ↗
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Finally, a happy marriage, of now 39 years!
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