Jerry Hall
American model and actress
On holiday in the south of France.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Tramping through the woods in South Jersey in 1957 with my dog Bambi.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2024 source ↗
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It would be a bad sign if I had a definite answer to that, wouldn't it?
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The artist Gerhard Richter.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. […] Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.
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Clarity when I am writing.
Collapse of the imagination.
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