Cybill Shepherd
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Acting like the good little girl.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My Sicilian impulsiveness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗
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A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
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