Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
That they want to be with me.
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 August 2017 source ↗
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Gayle King
Broadcaster
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.
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View profile →A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
I can't remember a time when I was happier than now, to be honest – though that's always been the case.
Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.
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