That this is all there is, and there is no more.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗
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David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
Losing my mind.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
I don’t think it’s misused yet, people are afraid of it might be misused but on the other hand, there is also value in finding out about the relation between several particular predispositions. You might be more careful if you are told that your genetic background is such that you shouldn’t eat fat in large amounts or so, it does help you change your life a little bit and so it’s not so bad, but it’s hard to find out which genetic background is causing these things.
Recorded
Marika Griehsel, Interview at the 53rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 30 June–4 July 2003, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 July 2003
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Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
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