I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
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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.
Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗
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Megan Rapinoe
United States international footballer, 2006–2023
I wish I wasn’t so rash, but would I be me if I wasn’t?
Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
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Being homeless.
At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.
Leontyne Price gives me life. She broke racial barriers with inimitable poise, grace, and excellence, as well as unbelievable focus and vision.
Thinking that I am less-than. That thinking is cunning, baffling, and insidious, and I must guard against it every hour of every day.
Cuddling in bed on a Sunday morning with the man I love. Also, applause and standing ovations.
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