Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗
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View all 65 →Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
They’re wonderful people who seem to like me!
Availability. Just kidding. Character.
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It happens all the time, but childhood holidays on the North Norfolk coast were a kind of bliss.
The Obamas are impressive.
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