Hugh Grant
Actor
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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.
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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A peaceful, joyous time in the world…or in my head.
A meal alfresco with people I love.
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View profile →Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
First a horse rancher, then a dancer.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
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